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Determinateness and the Pasch Axiom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Andrew Adler
Andrew Adler*
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University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
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Let E be the (nonelementary) plane Euclidean geometry without the Pasch axiom. (The Pasch axiom says that a line cutting one side of a triangle must also cut another side. A full list of axoms for E is given in [5].) E satisfies in particular the full second-order continuity axiom.

Szczerba [5] has recently shown using a Hamel basis for the reals over the rationals that there exists a model of E not satisfying the Pasch axiom. It is natural to ask whether the axiom of choice plays an essential role in the proof. It will turn out that it does.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 1973 , pp. 159 - 160
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1973

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