Sierpiński set of Euclidean plane
A subset of is called a Sierpiński set of the plane, if every line parallel to the -axis intersects only in countably many points and every line parallel to the -axis avoids in only countably many points:
The existence of Sierpiński sets is equivalent (http://planetmath.org/Equivalent3) with the continuum hypothesis
, as is proved in [1].
References
- 1 Gerald Kuba: “Wie plausibel ist die Kontinuumshypothese?”. –Elemente der Mathematik 61 (2006).