Cardinality of the division ring generated by a set #
Subfield.cardinal_mk_closure_le_max
: the cardinality of the (sub-)division ring
generated by a set is bounded by the cardinality of the set unless it is finite.
The method used to prove this (via WType
) can be easily generalized to other algebraic
structures, but those cardinalities can usually be obtained by other means, using some
explicit universal objects.
theorem
Subfield.cardinal_mk_closure
{α : Type u}
(s : Set α)
[DivisionRing α]
[Infinite ↑s]
:
Cardinal.mk ↥(Subfield.closure s) = Cardinal.mk ↑s