Solovay's complete Boolean algebra construction #
This file formalizes the construction in Robert M. Solovay's New Proof of a Theorem of Gaifman and Hales. It realizes the resulting complete Boolean algebra as the clopen algebra of its Stone space and develops the analytic facts needed for the Gao--Leung counterexample.
The regular-open completion of the open-set Boolean algebra, used as the complete Boolean algebra in Solovay's construction.
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Supplies arbitrary suprema and infima on regular open sets; required for complete-generation arguments below.
Bundles the complete Boolean-algebra structure of regular open sets; used as the algebra whose Stone spectrum forms the counterexample.
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Regards a clopen set as a regular open element; used to turn finite cylinders into Boolean-algebra generators.
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Reduces equality of regular open sets to equality of carriers; used to simplify Boolean-algebra computations in the Solovay construction.
Makes the regular-open constructor respect equality of clopen carriers; used when rewriting cylinder identities.
Computes intersections of clopen sets inside the regular-open algebra; used for finite cylinder meets and Boolean subalgebras.
Computes complements of clopen sets inside the regular-open algebra; used to show the cylinder-generated family is a Boolean subalgebra.
Expresses a clopen union as a supremum of regular-open elements; used to derive the explicit Solovay generator formulas.
Recovers a regular open set as the supremum of a family whose union is dense in it; used in the proof that the Solovay generators are complete.
The countable product of the well-ordered index type on which the Solovay cylinder algebra is constructed.
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- OrderClosures.SolovayProduct Gamma = (ℕ → Gamma)
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The basic Solovay generator comparing coordinate n with eta; these
generators will completely generate the regular-open algebra.
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- OrderClosures.solovayA Gamma n eta = OrderClosures.regularOpenOfClopen {f : OrderClosures.SolovayProduct Gamma | f n = eta} ⋯
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The finite-coordinate cylinder through g; used as the topological basis
recovered from the Solovay generators.
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- OrderClosures.solovayCylinderSet Gamma F g = ⋂ i ∈ F, {f : OrderClosures.SolovayProduct Gamma | f i = g i}
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Shows that every finite-coordinate Solovay cylinder is clopen; this allows it to define an element of the regular-open Boolean algebra.
The regular-open element associated with a finite cylinder; used to prove complete generation of every regular open set.
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- OrderClosures.solovayCylinder Gamma F g = OrderClosures.regularOpenOfClopen (OrderClosures.solovayCylinderSet Gamma F g) ⋯
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Auxiliary coordinate-comparison element used to recover finite cylinders
from the basic solovayA generators.
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- OrderClosures.solovayB Gamma m n = OrderClosures.regularOpenOfClopen {f : OrderClosures.SolovayProduct Gamma | f m ≤ f n} ⋯
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The regular-open event that coordinate n is strictly below eta; used
in the Boolean identities for the generators.
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- OrderClosures.solovayLT Gamma n eta = OrderClosures.regularOpenOfClopen {f : OrderClosures.SolovayProduct Gamma | f n < eta} ⋯
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The regular-open event that coordinate n is at most eta; used in the
well-founded recovery of exact coordinate values.
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- OrderClosures.solovayLE Gamma n eta = OrderClosures.regularOpenOfClopen {f : OrderClosures.SolovayProduct Gamma | f n ≤ eta} ⋯
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Auxiliary comparison element combining two coordinates and a threshold; used in the recursive cylinder-generation identities.
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- OrderClosures.solovayC Gamma m n eta = OrderClosures.regularOpenOfClopen {f : OrderClosures.SolovayProduct Gamma | f m < f n → f m < eta} ⋯
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The strict comparison event between two coordinates; isolated for reuse
in the formulas for solovayC and solovayBad.
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- OrderClosures.solovayStrict Gamma m n = OrderClosures.regularOpenOfClopen {f : OrderClosures.SolovayProduct Gamma | f m < f n} ⋯
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The complement of a strict coordinate bound; used in exact-coordinate cylinder formulas.
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- OrderClosures.solovayNotLT Gamma m eta = OrderClosures.regularOpenOfClopen {f : OrderClosures.SolovayProduct Gamma | ¬f m < eta} ⋯
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The exceptional part of a coordinate comparison; separated so it can be eliminated in the well-founded generator induction.
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- OrderClosures.solovayBad Gamma m n eta = OrderClosures.regularOpenOfClopen {f : OrderClosures.SolovayProduct Gamma | f m < f n ∧ ¬f m < eta} ⋯
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Closure predicate for a Boolean subalgebra under arbitrary suprema; used to formulate complete generation by the Solovay family.
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- OrderClosures.IsCompleteBooleanSubalgebra L = ∀ S ⊆ ↑L, sSup S ∈ L
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Derives closure under arbitrary infima from closure under arbitrary suprema and complement; used repeatedly for the generated Boolean algebra.
Expresses the strict-order event as a supremum of basic generators; used
to place it in every complete subalgebra containing solovayA.
Computes the event that one coordinate is strictly below another; used in the recursive recovery of finite cylinders.
Computes the complementary order event; used to build exact coordinate conditions from the Solovay generators.
Decomposes the exceptional comparison event into previously generated pieces; used in the induction recovering cylinder elements.
Gives the Boolean formula for the auxiliary comparison element solovayC;
used to derive the non-strict order event.
Expresses a non-strict coordinate bound as an infimum of comparison elements; used in the well-founded generator induction.
Gives the fundamental Boolean identity for a Solovay generator; used to recover exact coordinate cylinders.
Performs the well-founded step placing all solovayA elements in a
complete subalgebra generated by the basic family.
Splits a finite cylinder after inserting one coordinate; used for the induction showing all finite cylinders are generated.
Places every finite Solovay cylinder in a complete subalgebra containing the generators; used to recover arbitrary regular open sets.
The basic cylinders lying below a regular open element; their supremum is used to reconstruct that element.
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Represents the points of a regular open set by cylinders lying below it; used to express that set as a supremum of generated cylinder elements.
Shows every regular open element belongs to any complete subalgebra containing the Solovay generators; this proves generation of the full algebra.
Packages the preceding membership argument as complete generation of the regular-open Boolean algebra; used in the Gao counterexample.
Shows one coordinate layer of Solovay generators is injectively indexed; used for the density-character lower bound.
The bounded-lattice equations defining a two-valued Stone point; used to realize the Stone spectrum as a closed Cantor-cube subspace.
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The Stone spectrum of a Boolean algebra, represented by its two-valued bounded-lattice homomorphisms.
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- OrderClosures.BooleanStone B = { f : B → Bool // OrderClosures.IsBooleanStonePoint B f }
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Proves that the Boolean-homomorphism equations define a closed subset of the Cantor cube; used to obtain compactness of the Stone spectrum.
Compactness inherited from the closed realization inside the Cantor cube; used throughout the continuous-function construction.
The Stone spectrum is Hausdorff as a subspace of a product of discrete two-point spaces.
The clopen set of Stone points evaluating a Boolean element to true; used for the faithful Stone representation.
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- OrderClosures.booleanStoneClopen B b = {x : OrderClosures.BooleanStone B | ↑x b = true}
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Shows that evaluation at a Boolean element defines a clopen subset of the Stone spectrum; used for the clopen representation and its indicators.
Bundles a Stone point as a bounded-lattice homomorphism; used to access its algebraic laws uniformly.
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- OrderClosures.booleanStoneHom B x = { toFun := ↑x, map_sup' := ⋯, map_inf' := ⋯, map_top' := ⋯, map_bot' := ⋯ }
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Constructs the Stone point associated with a prime ideal; used to separate Boolean elements when an order relation fails.
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- OrderClosures.booleanStonePointOfPrime B J hJ = ⟨fun (b : B) => decide (b ∉ J), ⋯⟩
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Separates a failed Boolean inequality by a Stone point; used to prove faithfulness of the clopen representation.
Identifies Boolean order with inclusion of the corresponding Stone clopens; used for injectivity and order computations.
Proves injectivity of the Stone clopen representation; used to embed the complete Boolean algebra into continuous functions.
Selects b or its complement according to a Stone coordinate; used to
encode signed finite cylinders as Boolean elements.
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Evaluates membership in a signed-coordinate cylinder through its Boolean element; used to translate finite Cantor cylinders to Stone clopens.
The finite meet encoding the Cantor cylinder through a Stone point; used to produce represented clopen neighborhood bases.
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Identifies a finite Stone-space cylinder with the clopen represented by its Boolean cylinder element; used to prove the clopen basis theorem.
Refines every neighborhood of a Stone point to a represented clopen; used in extremal disconnectedness and point-separation arguments.
Supplies extremal disconnectedness from completeness of the Boolean
algebra; needed for continuous suprema in C(BooleanStone B, ℝ).
The union of strict rational upper-level sets of a function family; used as the raw level set for the continuous supremum.
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- OrderClosures.continuousFamilyLevelOpen K A q = ⋃ f ∈ A, ⇑f ⁻¹' Set.Ioi ↑q
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Shows that a rational strict upper-level set of a continuous family is open; used to regularize level sets in the supremum construction.
The closure of a family level set, made clopen by extremal disconnectedness; used to define pointwise rational cuts.
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Uses extremal disconnectedness to make regularized family level sets clopen; needed to assemble a continuous supremum.
Rational thresholds whose regularized level contains x; their supremum
defines the candidate least upper bound.
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The real supremum of the rational cut values at a point; later shown
continuous and bundled as continuousFamilySup.
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Shows that regularized upper-level sets decrease with the threshold; used to prove consistency of the cut-value construction.
Supplies rational cut values at each point for a nonempty family; needed to define the pointwise cut supremum.
Bounds the rational cut values using a common upper bound of the family; used to make their real supremum well-defined.
Bounds every cut value by any continuous upper bound of the family; used to prove minimality of the constructed supremum.
Proves continuity of the cut-defined supremum value; this allows it to be
bundled as continuousFamilySup.
Bundles the cut-defined pointwise supremum as a continuous function; used to prove order completeness of the continuous-function lattice.
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- OrderClosures.continuousFamilySup K A hA hAbdd = { toFun := OrderClosures.continuousFamilySupValue K A, continuous_toFun := ⋯ }
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Verifies that the constructed continuous function is the least upper bound
of the family; used to prove order completeness of C(K, ℝ).
Packages the continuous-family supremum construction as order completeness of continuous real functions on an extremally disconnected compact space.
The continuous zero-one indicator of a clopen set; used to embed Boolean clopens into the vector lattice of continuous functions.
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- OrderClosures.clopenIndicator K s hs = { toFun := s.indicator 1, continuous_toFun := ⋯ }
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Computes the infimum of two clopen indicators; used to make Boolean indicators compatible with lattice operations.
Computes the supremum of two clopen indicators; used in the Boolean-to- vector-sublattice transfer.
Computes the indicator of a clopen complement; used to recover Boolean complements inside a vector sublattice.
The continuous indicator associated with a Boolean element under Stone duality; used as the Boolean generator inside the vector lattice.
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Shows that arbitrary Boolean suprema correspond to closures of unions of Stone clopens; used to transfer completeness into vector sublattices.
Transfers Boolean order to order between indicator functions; used in order-convergence and sublattice generation arguments.
Records positivity of Boolean Stone indicators; used when constructing monotone order-convergent families.
Boolean elements whose Stone indicators lie in a fixed vector sublattice; used to transfer complete Boolean generation to vector-lattice generation.
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Shows that Boolean elements whose indicators lie in a vector sublattice form a complete Boolean subalgebra; used with Solovay generation for maximality.
Converts uniform convergence with a summable error bound into order convergence; used to show order-closed sublattices are norm closed.
Derives norm closedness of a vector sublattice from order closedness; used to compare the closed separable sublattice with larger order-closed ones.
Produces a Boolean indicator separating two distinct Stone points; used in the lattice Stone--Weierstrass argument.
Shows that a closed vector sublattice containing every Boolean indicator
is all of C(K, ℝ); used to prove maximality of the Solovay sublattice.
Bounds density character below by the cardinality of a one-separated family; used for the Stone-space continuous-function density estimate.
Shows distinct Boolean elements give indicators at distance at least one; used to obtain a large separated family.
Transfers the size of a Boolean algebra to a lower bound on the density character of its continuous-function lattice.
A countable selection of Boolean Stone indicators generating the Solovay vector sublattice used in the Gao counterexample.
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The closed vector sublattice generated by the selected Solovay indicators; this is the separable maximal order-closed witness.
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Records countability of the selected vector generators; used to prove separability of their closed generated sublattice.
Places each selected generator in the Solovay vector sublattice; used to show that any containing sublattice contains the generated Boolean algebra.
Records closedness of the generated Solovay vector sublattice; this is one
of the properties required by gao_counterexample.
Derives separability from the countable generator family; this supplies
the separable sublattice in gao_counterexample.
Shows that every order-closed vector sublattice containing the Solovay sublattice is the whole continuous-function lattice.