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The independence of Ramsey's theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

E. M. Kleinberg*
Affiliation:
The Rockefeller University

Extract

In [3] F. P. Ramsey proved as a theorem of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (ZF) with the Axiom of Choice (AC) the following result:

(1) Theorem. Let A be an infinite class. For each integer n and partition {X, Y} of the size n subsets of A, there exists an infinite subclass of A all of whose size n subsets are contained in only one of X or Y.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1969

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