Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 19 2 i a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
In the usual tail-normalized version, an Ulam matrix on omega-one is a family such that, for each , the sets indexed by partition the tail , while for each fixed the sets indexed by are pairwise disjoint. Empty cells are allowed; harmless bounded-tail variants give the same applications.
For a concrete realization, choose injections for every countable ordinal , and setFor fixed each chooses exactly one ; for fixed , injectivity of prevents one from belonging to two cells. This verifies the two matrix conditions explicitly.