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by chobytes 1259 days ago
Maybe Schroder-Bernstein could simplify. Easier to write 2 injections.
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That theorem is not valid constructively, so no way to make a computer program out of it. I.e., there is no program that given types A, B and injections (f : A -> B) and (g : B -> A) produces a bijection A -> B.
I'm pretty sure it is.
But from reading the first bit of the paper I think they are talking about something stronger, not any bijection but one that only requires inspecting and manipulating a bounded number of layers of the trees.