A B1.12
(i) State the Knaster-Tarski fixed point theorem. Use it to prove the Cantor-Bernstein Theorem; that is, if there exist injections and for two sets and then there exists a bijection .
(ii) Let be an arbitrary set and suppose given a subset of . We define a subset to be -closed just if whenever and then . Show that the set of all -closed subsets of is a complete poset in the inclusion ordering.
Now assume that is itself equipped with a partial ordering .
(a) Suppose satisfies the condition that if then .
Show that if is -closed then implies .
(b) Suppose that satisfies the following condition. Whenever and then there exists such that , and for every we have (i) , and (ii) for some . Let and be -closed subsets of . Show that the set
is -closed.