# Cauchy functional equation with non choice

Assume ZF+ not AC. Then how many solutions are there for Cauchy functional equation?

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• Maybe only the continuous ones. It is consistent that all sets of reals are Lebesgue measurable. And possibly many, since one can deny Choice in many ways. For example we can have a Hamel basis but not full Choice. – André Nicolas Apr 22 '13 at 21:21

The answer is undecidable. We know it could be $2^{\aleph_0}$ and it could be $2^{2^{\aleph_0}}$. I am unaware of results that it could be an intermediate cardinality, though.
It is true that there are always the continuous ones (and there are $2^{\aleph_0}$ of those), but it is consistent that there are only the continuous ones. For example in Solovay's model or in Shelah's model of $\sf ZF+DC+BP$ (the last one denotes "all sets of reals have the Baire property").
It is consistent that the axiom of choice fails and the real numbers are well-orderable, in which case the usual proof as if the axiom of choice holds shows that there are $2^{2^{\aleph_0}}$ solutions.