Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2006/ii/paper-2/16h/c/solution

True. This is left distributivity of ordinal multiplication. Fix and induct on . The zero case is immediate. The successor step uses and associativity of ordinal addition. At a limit, multiplication and addition are continuous in their right argument, so taking suprema of the earlier equalities gives .

New to topics? Read the docs here!