2026-04-19

1739: For Product Set, Product of Intersections of Subsets of Constituent Sets Is Intersection of Products of Subsets

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description/proof of that for product set, product of intersections of subsets of constituent sets is intersection of products of subsets

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  • The reader will have a description and a proof of the proposition that for any product set and any set of subsets of each constituent set, the product of the intersections of the subsets of the constituent sets is the intersection of the products of the subsets.

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1: Structured Description


Here is the rules of Structured Description.

Entities:
\(J\): \(\in \{\text{ the possibly uncountable index sets }\}\)
\(\{S_j \in \{\text{ the sets }\} \vert j \in J\}\):
\(\times_{j \in J} S_j\): \(= \text{ the product set }\)
\(\{L_j \in \{\text{ the possibly uncountable index sets }\} \vert j \in J\}\):
\(\{S_{j, l_j} \subseteq S_j \vert j \in J, l_j \in L_j\}\):
\(\times_{j \in J} L_j\): \(= \text{ the product set }\)
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Statements:
\(\times_{j \in J} \cap_{l_j \in L_j} S_{j, l_j} = \cap_{f \in \times_{j \in J} L_j} \times_{j \in J} S_{j, f (j)}\)
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2: Proof


Whole Strategy: Step 1: see that \(\times_{j \in J} \cap_{l_j \in L_j} S_{j, l_j} \subseteq \cap_{f \in \times_{j \in J} L_j} \times_{j \in J} S_{j, f (j)}\); Step 2: see that \(\cap_{f \in \times_{j \in J} L_j} \times_{j \in J} S_{j, f (j)} \subseteq \times_{j \in J} \cap_{l_j \in L_j} S_{j, l_j}\); Step 3: conclude the proposition.

Step 0:

For any product set, \(\times_{j \in J} S_j\), and any \(s \in \times_{j \in J} S_j\), let \(s^j = s (j)\) denote the \(j\)-component of the element.

Step 1:

Let \(s \in \times_{j \in J} \cap_{l_j \in L_j} S_{j, l_j}\) be any.

For each \(j \in J\), \(s^j \in \cap_{l_j \in L_j} S_{j, l_j}\), so, \(s^j \in S_{j, l_j}\) for each \(l_j \in L_j\).

For each \(f \in \times_{j \in J} L_j\), \(f (j) \in L_j\) for each \(j \in J\), so, \(s^j \in S_{j, f (j)}\) for each \(j \in J\).

\(s \in \times_{j \in J} S_{j, f (j)}\).

So, \(s \in \cap_{f \in \times_{j \in J} L_j} \times_{j \in J} S_{j, f (j)}\).

So, \(\times_{j \in J} \cap_{l_j \in L_j} S_{j, l_j} \subseteq \cap_{f \in \times_{j \in J} L_j} \times_{j \in J} S_{j, f (j)}\).

Step 2:

Let \(s \in \cap_{f \in \times_{j \in J} L_j} \times_{j \in J} S_{j, f (j)}\) be any.

\(s \in \times_{j \in J} S_{j, f (j)}\) for each \(f \in \times_{j \in J} L_j\).

For each \(j \in J\), \(s^j \in S_{j, f (j)}\).

As for each \(l_j \in L_j\), there is an \(f \in \times_{j \in J} L_j\) such that \(f (j) = l_j\), \(s^j \in S_{j, l_j}\) for each \(l_j \in L_j\), so, \(s^j \in \cap_{l_j \in L_j} S_{j, l_j}\).

So, \(s \in \times_{j \in J} \cap_{l_j \in L_j} S_{j, l_j}\).

So, \(\cap_{f \in \times_{j \in J} L_j} \times_{j \in J} S_{j, f (j)} \subseteq \times_{j \in J} \cap_{l_j \in L_j} S_{j, l_j}\).

Step 3:

So, \(\times_{j \in J} \cap_{l_j \in L_j} S_{j, l_j} = \cap_{f \in \times_{j \in J} L_j} \times_{j \in J} S_{j, f (j)}\).


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