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Nov 2, 2009 at 18:29 comment added Charles Siegel Ack, apologies. This is what I get for trying to do induction on no sleep, early in the morning.
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Nov 2, 2009 at 14:40 comment added Eric Wofsey This argument breaks down because the positive part of Z^n is not well-ordered. The argument shows that (0,0), (0,1), (0,2), etc must be fixed. But there's no next smallest element that has to be fixed after that.
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Nov 2, 2009 at 14:32 history answered Charles Siegel CC BY-SA 2.5