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Exercise 6.1.6
Show that the lexicographic product (see Lemma 4.6 in Chapter 4) is isomorphic to .
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Proof. Suppose that is the lexicographic ordering of . Now we define by
for any . Clearly .
First we show that is surjective. So consider any so that there are where . Then we clearly have that . Since clearly it follows that is surjective.
Now we show that is an increasing function. To this end consider any where .
Case: . Then since it must be that . Hence we have that .
Case: . Then since it must be that . Hence we have that .
Thus in all cases so that is increasing. It then follows that is injective and isomorphic. Hence is isomorphic to . □