On the Erdős–Dushnik–Miller theorem without AC

Abstract

In $\mathsf {ZFA}$ (Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the Axiom of Extensionality weakened to allow the existence of atoms), we prove that the strength of the proposition $\mathsf {EDM}$ (“If $G=(V_{G}, E_{G})$ is a graph such that $V_{G}$ is uncountable,