Saturday, 21 October 2017

elementary set theory - Proof that a subset of R has same cardinality as R



I am sitting with a task where I have to prove the following:



Claim:
Every subset of R, that contains an interval I with a<b, has the same cardinality as R.



So I think that I should prove that there exist a bijection from I to R? I'm kinda lost, and don't know how to start.




There is a lemma 3 in the book saying:
Let a,bR with a<b. There exist a f:]1;1[]a;b[ that is bijektiv. The intervals ]1;1[ and ]a;b[ has same cardinality.



Another lemma 4 says:
f:]0;1[]1;[, x1x, is bijective. The intervals f:]0;1[]1;[ have same cardinality.



(There is an image added to lemma4)



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The above interval ]1;1[ has same cardinality as R, and the f is bijective
Any help is highly appreciated


Answer



Hints:



First prove that any two non-empty open intervals have the same cardinality.



Second, pass now to use the nice interval (π/2,π/2) and a rather nice, simple trigonometric function to show equipotency with R


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