Saturday, 30 March 2013

functions - Prove the existence of a bijection




Let A and B be sets, and suppose A is infinite.
Let B be a countably infinite subset of A.



Show that if f:NB and g:BN are bijections, then
h:AA{f(1)},a{a,if aBf(1+g(a)),if aB ,
is also a bijection.



I am not really sure how to do this one


Answer



To show injectivity, assume that h(x)=h(y) for some x,yA. We want to show that x=y. There are a few cases:



Case 1 (x,yB): Then by definition h(x)=x and h(y)=y. So we have x=y.




Case 2 (x,yB): Then we have that f(1+g(x))=f(1+g(y)). Since both f,g are invertible, we have that x=y.



Case 3 (xB, yB): Then h(x)B since f(1+g(x))B, and h(y)=yB. Thus h(x)h(y), so this case is impossible.



Case 4 (xB, yB): As in case 3, this case cannot happen.



So we have that h(x)=h(y)x=y. Thus h is injective.



Now we want to show surjectivity. Let bAf(1). We want to show that there exists an aA such that h(a)=b. There are a couple cases:




Case 1 (bB): Set a=b. Then h(a)=h(b)=b.



Case 2 (bB): Then b=f(n) for some nN, since f is bijective. Further, n>1 since bAf(1). We have g(a)=n1 for some aB, since g bijective. Then h(a)=f(n)=b.



Thus h is surjective. Since h is both injective and surjective, it is bijective.


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