Consequences
The Power Set Axiom allows a simple definition of the Cartesian product of two sets and :
Notice that
and thus the Cartesian product is a set since
One may define the Cartesian product of any finite collection of sets recursively:
Note that the existence of the Cartesian product can be proved without using the power set axiom, as in the case of the Kripke–Platek set theory.
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