Help with Cartesian product of power sets please

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Nov 25th 2012, 04:57 AM
chuciulla93

Help with Cartesian product of power sets please

I hope I'm not breaking any rules by posting this, but just came across a homework problem that I was unsure on.
What is the Cartesian product of A and the power set of B if A={1} and B={}?
I know that the Cartesian product of A x B under these cases is the empty set, but it's not the same thing.
So far I've tried looking at it a few different ways: {1} x {{}}= ? being one
Thank you

PS: I'm new here so please be gentle (Angel)
Nov 25th 2012, 05:07 AM
Plato

Re: Help with Cartesian product of power sets please

Quote:

Originally Posted by chuciulla93

So far I've tried looking at it a few different ways: {1} x {{}}= ? being one

$\{1\}\times\{\emptyset\}$ has one element. What is the ordered pair?
Nov 25th 2012, 05:22 AM
chuciulla93

Re: Help with Cartesian product of power sets please

Would it be: { (1,{}), ({},1) } ?
Please see my edit.
And yes the pair is $(1,\emptyset}).$
Nov 25th 2012, 06:04 AM
chuciulla93

Re: Help with Cartesian product of power sets please

Thank you
Nov 25th 2012, 09:08 AM
Plato

Re: Help with Cartesian product of power sets please

Quote:

Originally Posted by chuciulla93

Please see my edit.
And yes the pair is $(1,\emptyset}).$

I want to explain my edit. Frankly my first reaction was to the title "Cartesian product of power sets please"
But upon rereading the post, that was not being asked.

But was it actually what was meant?
The power set $\mathcal{P}(\emptyset)=\{\emptyset\}$

The power set $\mathcal{P}(\{1\})=\{\emptyset,~\{1\}\}$

Therefore $\mathcal{P}(\{1\})\times \mathcal{P}(\emptyset)=\{(\emptyset,\emptyset),~ ( \{ 1\},\emptyset)\}$ : that is two elements.