Thursday, September 19, 2019

sequences and series - Show that S has the same cardinality with the set of real numbers.



Suppose that an is a sequence with values in R which is not ultimately constant.



Let S be the set of the subsequences of an.







Question: Show that S has the same cardinality with the set of real numbers.






Attempt: First, I tried to write S in my logic as S={afn|fnis monotone increasing,fn:NN}



If two sets have the same cardinality, there must be a bijective mapping between them. If I am able to show there are uncountable many increasing fn, then I am done, but I couldnot. Besides, how can one prove this by using my logic or in other method?







Comment:
Moreover, I can understand intuitively that there cannot be countable many such subsequences since an is not convergent, that is not going to the any number, changes everytime.


Answer



The {0,1} sequences are not ultimately constant (if we forget countably many being constant from some term), hence
c=20|S|c0=c


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