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Regular cardinal : ウィキペディア英語版
Regular cardinal
In set theory, a regular cardinal is a cardinal number that is equal to its own cofinality. So, crudely speaking, a regular cardinal is one that cannot be broken into a smaller collection of smaller parts.
If the axiom of choice holds (so that any cardinal number can be well-ordered), an infinite cardinal \kappa is regular if and only if it cannot be expressed as the cardinal sum of a set of cardinality less than \kappa, the elements of which are cardinals less than \kappa. (The situation is slightly more complicated in contexts where the axiom of choice might fail; in that case not all cardinals are necessarily the cardinalities of well-ordered sets. In that case, the above definition is restricted to well-orderable cardinals only.)
An infinite ordinal \alpha is regular if and only if it is a limit ordinal which is not the limit of a set of smaller ordinals which set has order type less than \alpha. A regular ordinal is always an initial ordinal, though some initial ordinals are not regular.
Infinite well-ordered cardinals that are not regular are called singular cardinals. Finite cardinal numbers are typically not called regular or singular.
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== Examples ==

The ordinals less than \omega are finite. A finite sequence of finite ordinals always has a finite maximum, so \omega cannot be the limit of any sequence of type less than \omega whose elements are ordinals less than \omega, and is therefore a regular ordinal. \aleph_0 (aleph-null) is a regular cardinal because its initial ordinal, \omega, is regular. It can also be seen directly to be regular, as the cardinal sum of a finite number of finite cardinal numbers is itself finite.
\omega+1 is the next ordinal number greater than \omega. It is singular, since it is not a limit ordinal. \omega+\omega is the next limit ordinal after \omega. It can be written as the limit of the sequence \omega, \omega+1, \omega+2, \omega+3, and so on. This sequence has order type \omega, so \omega+\omega is the limit of a sequence of type less than \omega+\omega whose elements are ordinals less than \omega+\omega, therefore it is singular.
\aleph_1 is the next cardinal number greater than \aleph_0, so the cardinals less than \aleph_1 are countable (finite or denumerable). Assuming the axiom of choice, the union of a countable set of countable sets is itself countable. So \aleph_1 cannot be written as the sum of a countable set of countable cardinal numbers, and is regular.
\aleph_\omega is the next cardinal number after the sequence \aleph_0, \aleph_1, \aleph_2, \aleph_3, and so on. Its initial ordinal \omega_\omega is the limit of the sequence \omega, \omega_1, \omega_2, \omega_3, and so on, which has order type \omega, so \omega_\omega is singular, and so is \aleph_\omega. Assuming the axiom of choice, \aleph_\omega is the first infinite cardinal which is singular (the first infinite ''ordinal'' which is singular is \omega+1). Proving the existence of singular cardinals requires the axiom of replacement, and in fact the inability to prove the existence of \aleph_\omega in Zermelo set theory is what led Fraenkel to postulate this axiom.

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