So this is a question out of Real Analysis book that I'm working through, and I'm quite stuck.
Give a counterexample to one of the following four formulas for images and inverse images of sets (the other three are true)
- f(X1∪X2)=f(X1)∪f(X2),
- f−1(Y1∪Y2)=f−1(Y1)∪f−1(Y2),
- f(X1∩X2)=f(X1)∩f(X2),
- f−1(Y1∩Y2)=f−1(Y1)∩f−1(Y2)
I went through Overview of basic results about images and preimages and from other resources I can find online, all 4 of these are true... I can't figure out what I am missing.
Thanks for the help
Answer
3 is false, if F is a contant map and X1,X2 disjoint.
Exercise. Prove for 3 that the
left hand side is a subset of the right hand side.
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