English

Cantor digraphs and abbreviations of formulas

Logic 2025-10-10 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

A digraph D=V,ED=\langle V,E\rangle (EV×VE\subset V\times V) is Cantor if Cantor's theorem - for no set there is a surjection from it to its power set - holds in DD, in the sense we explain. We construct a ZF formula φ\varphi with length 494494 such that DφD\models\varphi iff DD is Cantor. In order to obtain φ\varphi, which is a word over the alphabet {x1,x2,}{,=,¬,,,,,,,(,)}, \{x_1,\,x_2,\,\dots\}\cup \{\in,\,=,\,\neg, \,\to,\,\leftrightarrow,\,\wedge,\, \vee,\,\exists,\,\forall,\,(,\,)\}\,, we devise abbreviation schemes of ZF formulas. We introduce extensive and strongly extensive digraphs and show, by the standard argument, that they are Cantor. We construct a countable strongly extensive digraph with arbitrarily large finite in-degrees.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2510.02620,
  title  = {Cantor digraphs and abbreviations of formulas},
  author = {Martin Klazar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.02620},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

21 pages; restated in terms of digraphs

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