Rational tail quotients of the surreals #
For a family of finite Archimedean classes, its common tail is a rational subspace of the surreals. Quotienting by that subspace gives the usual ordered tail quotient together with its native rational-vector-space structure. At a nonempty limit family, the quotient is Cauchy complete for its additive uniformity: the canonical representatives of the family are a small positive coinitial family, and surreal simplicity fills every cut indexed by that family.
This presentation is used when a small closed rational subspace of the tail quotient must be formed. Its additive subgroup is exactly the tail kernel used by the older additive presentation.
The quotient by the rational subspace underlying a family of Archimedean tails.
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Absolute value commutes with projection to a rational tail quotient.
A strict comparison of quotient Archimedean classes reflects to the chosen surreal representatives.
Suppose a chosen quotient class is met by S, and every nonzero member of W lies outside
its quotient closed ball while retaining a class met by S. Then the nonzero support classes of
W form a strict initial segment of the support classes of S.
Canonical positive scales in a rational tail quotient, indexed by a small copy of the class family.
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The canonical quotient scale is represented by the positive representative of its class.
At a limit family, every canonical tail-quotient scale is positive.
The canonical scales are coinitial among the positive elements of the tail quotient.
The positive representatives of a limit family give a small coinitial family in its rational tail quotient.
A rational tail quotient at a nonempty limit family is Cauchy complete for its additive uniformity.