Friday, October 07, 2005

Deuber's wqo theorem

Let (A,<) be a wqo-set with an obvious ranking r defined by successively taking minimal elements. Call a sequence (a0,a1,...) regressive iff r(ai)<i for every i in ω.

Theorem (Deuber): Let (A,<) be wqo. Then there exists a function
H(A,<):ω --> ω such that every regressive sequence (a0,a1,...,aH(n)) contains a weakly ascending subsequence with n terms.



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