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Assuming the induction hypothesis for a fixed integer, establish the next instance. Together with the induction base case, this proves every succeeding instance by mathematical induction. The hypothesis is conditional within this argument, rather than an unsupported assumption that the desired theorem is already true.

Let $K_s$ be the finite approximation to the halting problem obtained by running the first $s$ programs for $s$ steps, so $K_s\subseteq K_{s+1}$ and $K={\bigcup }_s{K}_s$ is not computable. For $x<y<z$, define the recursive triple colouring with no computable infinite homogeneous set byThis is a total computable function. Here homogeneous sets are required to be infinite: finite homogeneous sets certainly exist. An infinite homogeneous $H$ cannot have colour one. Fix $x\in H$; the finite approximation below $x$ eventually stabilizes, so two sufficiently large $y<z$ in $H$ give colour zero. If $H$ has colour zero, choose $x<y$ in $H$ with $x\ge e$. For arbitrarily large $z\in H$, homogeneity gives $K_y\cap [0,x]=K_z\cap [0,x]$, and hence $K_y\cap [0,x]=K\cap [0,x]$. Thus $H$ computes membership of $e$ in $K$. A computable infinite $H$ would make the halting problem computable, a contradiction.

For the uncountable partition relation, the Erdős-Rado theorem for finite arities states that for every infinite cardinal $\kappa$ and integer $n\ge 1$,The case $n=1$ is the pigeonhole principle: a union of $\kappa$ sets of size at most $\kappa$ cannot have size ${\kappa }^{+}$. Suppose the assertion holds for $n-1$. Put $\mu ={\beth }_{n-2}(\kappa )$ and $\lambda =(2^{\mu }{)}^{+}$, and let $c:[\lambda {]}^n\to \kappa$. We give the closed elementary-submodel construction of an end-homogeneous sequence, which avoids intersecting a decreasing family of reservoirs at a limit stage.

Take a sufficiently large regular $\chi$ and an elementary substructure $M\prec H_{\chi }$ with $|M|=2^{\mu }$, containing $c,\lambda$ and all ordinals below ${\mu }^{+}$, and closed under sequences of length at most $\mu$. Such an $M$ is obtained by ${\mu }^{+}$ successive Skolem hull closures: $(2^{\mu }{)}^{\mu }=2^{\mu }$, and the regularity of ${\mu }^{+}$ puts any at-most-$\mu$-long sequence from the union inside one stage. Put $\beta =\sup (M\cap \lambda )<\lambda$. The set $M\cap \lambda$ has no greatest element, since taking an ordinal successor is definable in $M$, so $\beta \notin M$.

Recursively choose an increasing sequence $⟨x_{\xi }:\xi <{\mu }^{+}⟩$ in $M\cap \lambda$. At stage $\xi$, its earlier set $A$ has size at most $\mu$, and the colour table $g(u)=c(u\cup \{\beta \})$ on $[A{]}^{n-1}$ has size at most $\mu$. Both $A$ and this table belong to $M$ by its closure. The setbelongs to $M$ and is nonempty because it contains $\beta$. Elementarity supplies $x_{\xi }\in X\cap M$. Consequently the colour of each $n$-tuple from the resulting sequence depends only on its first $n-1$ entries. The induction hypothesis applied to these entries gives a homogeneous subsequence of size ${\kappa }^{+}$, proving the result.

Infinite exponents behave differently with the axiom of choice. On the countably infinite subsets of any infinite cardinal $\lambda$, choose a representative of each equivalence class modulo finite symmetric difference. Colour a set $A$ by the parity of $|A△R_A|$. Removing one point flips its colour. Every infinite proposed homogeneous set contains an increasing sequence of order type $\omega$, and that sequence and its tail have opposite colours. Thus the finite-symmetric-difference colouring of infinite subsets gives $\lambda /⟶(\omega {)}_2^{\omega }$, whether the domain consists of all countably infinite subsets or only those of order type $\omega$. There is no unrestricted infinite-arity counterpart to the displayed finite-arity theorem in ZFC.