Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2014/iii/paper-9/3/iv/solution

Define . The proposed addition of filters on the natural numbers is
Because addition of positive integers stays in , and . Thus the sum contains the whole set and excludes the empty set. If , upward closure of gives , so upward closure of gives upward closure of the sum.
Finally, for every ,
The conjunction property for proved in (i) consequently gives
Finite-intersection closure of proves the same closure for its sum. All proper-filter axioms hold, so (iv) is always true. No ultrafilter assumption is needed here.

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