Countable sums in ZF
Timothy Y. Chow
tchow at math.princeton.edu
Mon Aug 10 17:52:08 EDT 2020
I was surprised to learn recently that the proof of "a positive
real-valued function on [0,1] has a positive integral" requires countable
choice (Kanovei and Katz, Real Analysis Exchange 42 (2017), 385-390).
Years ago, on MathOverflow, the following theorem was cited as being
trickier to prove than it looks: If I_1, I_2, ... are intervals of real
numbers with lengths that sum to less than 1, then their union cannot be
all of [0,1]. Is there anything interesting about this theorem from a
reverse mathematics perspective?
Tim
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