ThmDex – An index of mathematical definitions, results, and conjectures.
Result R1841 on D468: Bijective map
Indicator function operator is a bijection
Formulation 0
Let $X$ be a D11: Set such that
(i) $\mathcal{I} : \mathcal{P}(X) \to \{ 0, 1 \}^X$ is an D4210: Indicator function operator on $\mathcal{P}(X)$
Then $\mathcal{I}$ is a D468: Bijective map.
Subresults
R5097: Power set is isomorphic to a set of boolean functions
Proofs
Proof 0
Let $X$ be a D11: Set such that
(i) $\mathcal{I} : \mathcal{P}(X) \to \{ 0, 1 \}^X$ is an D4210: Indicator function operator on $\mathcal{P}(X)$
If $E, F \in \mathcal{P}(X)$ such that $E = F$, then clearly $\mathcal{I}(E) = I_E = I_F = \mathcal{I}(F)$ which establishes injectivity of $\mathcal{I}$.

Next we must show surjectivity. Let $f : X \to \{ 0, 1 \}$ be a boolean function on $X$. Now $E : = f^{-1} \{ 1 \}$ is a set in $\mathcal{P}(X)$ such that $f$ attains value $1$ on every element in $E$ and value $0$ on every element in $X \setminus E$. Thus, $I_E = f$ by definition of an indicator function. Since we have established both injectivity and surjectivity, we are done. $\square$