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Does the Partition Principle imply the Axiom of Choice?

Theorem 1.1: Con(ZF) implies Con(ZF + PP + ACwo + ¬\negAC). Theorem 1.2: over every countable transitive model VV of ZFC there are a set forcing and a transitive symmetric submodel WW with V⊆W⊆V[G]V\subseteq W\subseteq V[G], the same ordinals, W⊨W\models ZF + PP + ACwo + ¬\negAC, and no new countable sequences of elements of VV. The construction makes every non-wellorderable image of a fixed set bijective with it and uses Ryan-Smith's local-to-global reduction. Remarks draw consequences for the dual Cantor-Schroeder-Bernstein principle and the Weak Partition Principle. It does not settle whether the Weak Partition Principle implies AC or PP, nor other cardinal-comparison principles beyond those remarks.

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Does the Partition Principle imply the Axiom of Choice?

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Theorem 1.1: Con(ZF) implies Con(ZF + PP + ACwo + ¬\negAC). Theorem 1.2: over every countable transitive model VV of ZFC there are a set forcing and a transitive symmetric submodel WW with V⊆W⊆V[G]V\subseteq W\subseteq V[G], the same ordinals, W⊨W\models ZF + PP + ACwo + ¬\negAC, and no new countable sequences of elements of VV. The construction makes every non-wellorderable image of a fixed set bijective with it and…

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Theorem 1.1: Con(ZF) implies Con(ZF + PP + ACwo + ¬\negAC). Theorem 1.2: over every countable transitive model VV of ZFC there are a set forcing and a transitive symmetric submodel WW with V⊆W⊆V[G]V\subseteq W\subseteq V[G], the same ordinals, W⊨W\models ZF + PP + ACwo + ¬\negAC, and no new countable sequences of elements of VV. The construction makes every non-wellorderable image of a fixed set bijective with it and uses Ryan-Smith's local-to-global reduction. Remarks draw consequences for the dual Cantor-Schroeder-Bernstein principle and the Weak Partition Principle. It does not settle whether the Weak Partition Principle implies AC or PP, nor other cardinal-comparison principles beyond those remarks.

Theorem 1.1: Con(ZF) implies Con(ZF + PP + ACwo + ¬\negAC). Theorem 1.2: over every countable transitive model VV of ZFC there are a set forcing and a transitive symmetric submodel WW with V⊆W⊆V[G]V\subseteq W\subseteq V[G], the same ordinals, W⊨W\models ZF + PP + ACwo + ¬\negAC, and no new countable sequences of elements of VV. The construction makes every non-wellorderable image of a fixed set bijective with it and uses Ryan-Smith's local-to-global reduction. Remarks draw consequences for the dual Cantor-Schroeder-Bernstein principle and the Weak Partition Principle. It does not settle whether the Weak Partition Principle implies AC or PP, nor other cardinal-comparison principles beyond those remarks.

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