Veblen function

Mathematical function on ordinals

In mathematics, the Veblen functions are a hierarchy of normal functions, introduced by Oswald Veblen in Veblen (1908). If φ0 is any normal function, then for any non-zero ordinal α, φα is the function enumerating the common fixed points of φβ for β<α. These functions are all normal.

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