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In ZFC, every ${\aleph }_1$-Suslin set is a union of ${\aleph }_1$ many analytic sets. A branch through a representing tree uses a countable sequence of countable ordinals. That sequence is bounded below ${\omega }_1$, so restrict the labels successively below $\alpha <{\omega }_1$.

Each restricted label set is countable and can be encoded by natural numbers; its projection is therefore an analytic set. The union of these projections is the original set. This is the $\kappa ={\aleph }_0$ case of Successor-Suslin decomposition. The proof explicitly uses the uncountable cofinality of ${\omega }_1$ and countable recoding, hypotheses that need care without the axiom of choice.

Let $A=p[T]$ for a tree $T\subseteq ({\kappa }^{+}\times \omega {)}^{<\omega }$. For each $\alpha <{\kappa }^{+}$, restrict the first-coordinate labels to $\alpha$ and writeEvery countable subset of the successor cardinal ${\kappa }^{+}$ is bounded in ${\kappa }^{+}$, so the first coordinates of any branch through $T$ all lie below some $\alpha <{\kappa }^{+}$. ConsequentlyEvery $\alpha <{\kappa }^{+}$ has cardinality at most $\kappa$, hence injects into $\kappa$. Part i shows that each $A_{\alpha }$ is $\kappa$-Suslin. This is the Successor-Suslin decomposition.