Proving $\langle \Bbb R,+ \rangle \cong \langle \Bbb C,+ \rangle$ without choice

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In this question, we have proved that $\langle \Bbb R,+ \rangle \cong \langle \Bbb C,+ \rangle$:

  1. Pick your favourite Hamel basis $H=\{U_\alpha \mid \alpha \in I\}$ where $I$ is an indexing set.
  2. Then, $H \cup iH$ is a basis of $\Bbb C$ as a vector space over $\Bbb Q$.
  3. Pick your favourite bijection $\varphi:H \mapsto H \cup iH$.
  4. This gives an isomorphism between the two groups concerned.

Choice is used in the 1st step and, I believe, in the 3rd step.


Let $P$ be the proposition $\langle \Bbb R,+ \rangle \cong \langle \Bbb C,+ \rangle$ under $ZF$. Which of the following statements are true?

  1. $\vdash P$
  2. $\vdash \neg P$
  3. $\operatorname{Con}(ZF \cup \{P\})$
  4. $\operatorname{Con}(ZF \cup \{\neg P\})$