Countable functionals and the projective hierarchy

1981 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dag Normann
Keyword(s):  
Equivalence Classes ◽  
Type Structure ◽  
Continuous Functional ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Projective Hierarchy ◽  
Continuous Functionals ◽  
Original Approach ◽  
Computable Functional

Kleene [7] and Kreisel [8] defined independently the countable (continuous) functionals. Kleene [7] defined the countable functionals of type k to be total functionals of type k acting in a continuous way when restricted to countable arguments of type k − 1. He also defined the associates for countable functionals. They are functions α: N → N containing information about how the functional acts on countable arguments. Kleene [7] showed that the countable functionals are closed under the computations derived from S1–S9 of his paper [6], and that every computable functional has a recursive associate.Kreisel defined the continuous functionals to be equivalence-classes of associates. By his definition it is meaningless to let a continuous functional act upon anything but continuous arguments.One disadvantage of Kleene's approach is that two different functionals may have the same associates We will later see that there may be two functionals φ1 and φ2 with the same associates but such that the relationsare not the same.In more recent papers on the countable functionals it is normal to regard the hierarchy 〈Ct(k)〉kϵN of countable functionals as a type-structure such that the functionals in Ct(k + 1) are maps from Ct(k) to N(Ct(0) = N), see e.g. Bergstra [1] and Gandy and Hyland [3].We will then enjoy the streamlined formalism of a type-structure in which S1–S9 have meaning, but avoid the ambiguities of Kleene's original approach.We will presuppose a brief familiarity with the theory of the countable functionals.

Colimit completions and the effective topos

1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 678-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund Robinson ◽  
Giuseppe Rosolini
Keyword(s):  
Order Type ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Type Structure ◽  
The Family ◽  
Higher Types ◽  
Polymorphic Type ◽  
Original Approach ◽  
Effective Operators

The family of readability toposes, of which the effective topos is the best known, was discovered by Martin Hyland in the late 1970's. Since then these toposes have been used for several purposes. The effective topos itself was originally intended as a category in which various recursion-theoretic or effective constructions would live as natural parts of the higher-order type structure. For example the hereditary effective operators become the higher types over N (Hyland [1982]), and effective domains become the countably-based domains in the topos (McCarty [1984], Rosolini [1986]). However, following the discovery by Moggi and Hyland that it contained nontrivial small complete categories, the effective topos has also been used to provide natural models of polymorphic type theories, up to and including the theory of constructions (Hyland [1987], Hyland, Robinson and Rosolini [1987], Scedrov [1987], Bainbridge et al. [1987]).Over the years there have also been several different constructions of the topos. The original approach, as in Hyland [1982], was to construct the topos by first giving a notion of Pω-valued set. A Pω-valued set is a set X together with a function =x: X × X → Pω. The elements of X are to be thought of as codes, or as expressions denoting elements of some “real underlying” set in the topos. Given a pair (x,x′) of elements of X, the set =x (x,x′) (generally written ) is the set of codes of proofs that the element denoted by x is equal to the element denoted by x′.

scholarly journals Theoretical guidelines to create and tune electric skyrmion bubbles

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. eaau7023 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Pereira Gonçalves ◽  
Carlos Escorihuela-Sayalero ◽  
Pablo Garca-Fernández ◽  
Javier Junquera ◽  
Jorge Íñiguez
Keyword(s):  
Domain Wall ◽  
Type Structure ◽  
External Fields ◽  
Topological Transitions ◽  
Magnetic Skyrmions ◽  
Customary Manner ◽  
Original Approach ◽  
Moriya Interaction

Researchers have long wondered whether ferroelectrics may present topological textures akin to magnetic skyrmions and chiral bubbles, the results being modest thus far. An electric equivalent of a typical magnetic skyrmion would rely on a counterpart of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and seems all but impossible; further, the exotic ferroelectric orders reported to date rely on specific composites and superlattices, limiting their generality and properties. Here, we propose an original approach to write topological textures in simple ferroelectrics in a customary manner. Our second-principles simulations of columnar nanodomains, in prototype material PbTiO3, show we can harness the Bloch-type structure of the domain wall to create objects with the usual skyrmion-defining features as well as unusual ones—including isotopological and topological transitions driven by external fields and temperature—and potentially very small sizes. Our results suggest countless possibilities for creating and manipulating such electric textures, effectively inaugurating the field of topological ferroelectrics.

Automorphisms of G-Azumaya Algebras

1985 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 1047-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Beattie
Keyword(s):  
Finite Abelian Group ◽  
Equivalence Classes ◽  
Usual Sense ◽  
Smash Product ◽  
Azumaya Algebras ◽  
Azumaya Algebra ◽  
Linear Automorphism ◽  
Inner Automorphism ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Inner Automorphisms

Let R be a commutative ring, G a finite abelian group of order n and exponent m, and assume n is a unit in R. In [10], F. W. Long defined a generalized Brauer group, BD(R, G), of algebras with a G-action and G-grading, whose elements are equivalence classes of G-Azumaya algebras. In this paper we investigate the automorphisms of a G-Azumaya algebra A and prove that if Picm(R) is trivial, then these automorphisms are all, in some sense, inner.In fact, each of these “inner” automorphisms can be written as the composition of an inner automorphism in the usual sense and a “linear“ automorphism, i.e., an automorphism of the typewith r(σ) a unit in R. We then use these results to show that the group of gradings of the centre of a G-Azumaya algebra A is a direct summand of G, and thus if G is cyclic of order pr, A is the (smash) product of a commutative and a central G-Azumaya algebra.

Minimal Operators for Schrodinger-Type Differential Expressions with Discontinuous Principal Coefficients

1980 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1423-1437 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Faierman ◽  
I. Knowles
Keyword(s):  
Basic Problem ◽  
Adjoint Operator ◽  
General Setting ◽  
Equivalence Classes ◽  
The Self ◽  
Singular Potentials ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Schrödinger Type Operators ◽  
Complex Valued

The objective of this paper is to extend the recent results [7, 8, 9] concerning the self-adjointness of Schrödinger-type operators with singular potentials to a more general setting. We shall be concerned here with formally symmetric elliptic differential expressions of the form1.1where x = (x1, …, xm) ∈ Rm (and m ≧ 1), i = (–1)1/2, ∂j = ∂/∂xj, and the coefficients ajk, bj and q are real-valued and measurable on Rm.The basic problem that we consider is that of deciding whether or not the formal operator defined by (1.1) determines a unique self-adjoint operator in the space L2(Rm) of (equivalence classes of) square integrable complex-valued functions on Rm.

scholarly journals On the number of eigenvalues in the spectral gap of a Dirac system

1986 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. B. Hinton ◽  
A. B. Mingarelli ◽  
T. T. Read ◽  
J. K. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Differential Operators ◽  
Spectral Gap ◽  
Equivalence Classes ◽  
Value Functions ◽  
Complex Vector ◽  
Absolutely Continuous ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Integrable Functions ◽  
The One ◽  
Image Position

We consider the one-dimensional operator,on 0<x<∞ with. The coefficientsp,V1andV2are assumed to be real, locally Lebesgue integrable functions;c1andc2are positive numbers. The operatorLacts in the Hilbert spaceHof all equivalence classes of complex vector-value functionssuch that.Lhas domainD(L)consisting of ally∈Hsuch thatyis locally absolutely continuous andLy∈H; thus in the language of differential operatorsLis a maximal operator. Associated withLis the minimal operatorL0defined as the closure ofwhereis the restriction ofLto the functions with compact support in (0,∞).

Implicational formulas in intuitionistic logic

1974 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alasdair Urquhart
Keyword(s):  
Propositional Calculus ◽  
Modus Ponens ◽  
Equivalence Classes ◽  
Alternative Proof ◽  
Hilbert Algebra ◽  
Hilbert Algebras ◽  
Free Generators ◽  
Finite Set ◽  
Image Position ◽  
The Right

In [1] Diego showed that there are only finitely many nonequivalent formulas in n variables in the positive implicational propositional calculus P. He also gave a recursive construction of the corresponding algebra of formulas, the free Hilbert algebra In on n free generators. In the present paper we give an alternative proof of the finiteness of In, and another construction of free Hilbert algebras, yielding a normal form for implicational formulas. The main new result is that In is built up from n copies of a finite Boolean algebra. The proofs use Kripke models [2] rather than the algebraic techniques of [1].Let V be a finite set of propositional variables, and let F(V) be the set of all formulas built up from V ⋃ {t} using → alone. The algebra defined on the equivalence classes , by settingis a free Hilbert algebra I(V) on the free generators . A set T ⊆ F(V) is a theory if ⊦pA implies A ∈ T, and T is closed under modus ponens. For T a theory, T[A] is the theory {B ∣ A → B ∈ T}. A theory T is p-prime, where p ∈ V, if p ∉ T and, for any A ∈ F(V), A ∈ T or A → p ∈ T. A theory is prime if it is p-prime for some p. Pp(V) denotes the set of p-prime theories in F(V), P(V) the set of prime theories. T ∈ P(V) is minimal if there is no theory in P(V) strictly contained in T. Where X = {A1, …, An} is a finite set of formulas, let X → B be A1 →····→·An → B (ϕ → B is B). A formula A is a p-formula if p is the right-most variable occurring in A, i.e. if A is of the form X → p.

scholarly journals New Dichotomies for Borel Equivalence Relations

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Hjorth ◽  
Alexander S. Kechris
Keyword(s):  
Quotient Space ◽  
Complete Classification ◽  
Equivalence Classes ◽  
Equivalence Relations ◽  
Borel Equivalence Relations ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Borel Map ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Completely Metrizable

We announce two new dichotomy theorems for Borel equivalence relations, and present the results in context by giving an overview of related recent developments.§1. Introduction. For X a Polish (i.e., separable, completely metrizable) space and E a Borel equivalence relation on X, a (complete) classification of X up to E-equivalence consists of finding a set of invariants I and a map c : X → I such that xEy ⇔ c(x) = c(y). To be of any value we would expect I and c to be “explicit” or “definable”. The theory of Borel equivalence relations investigates the nature of possible invariants and provides a hierarchy of notions of classification.The following partial (pre-)ordering is fundamental in organizing this study. Given equivalence relations E and F on X and Y, resp., we say that E can be Borel reduced to F, in symbolsif there is a Borel map f : X → Y with xEy ⇔ f(x)Ff(y). Then if is an embedding of X/E into Y/F, which is “Borel” (in the sense that it has a Borel lifting).Intuitively, E ≤BF might be interpreted in any one of the following ways:(i) The classi.cation problem for E is simpler than (or can be reduced to) that of F: any invariants for F work as well for E (after composing by an f as above).(ii) One can classify E by using as invariants F-equivalence classes.(iii) The quotient space X/E has “Borel cardinality” less than or equal to that of Y/F, in the sense that there is a “Borel” embedding of X/E into Y/F.

scholarly journals A note on Köthe spaces

1970 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-155
Author(s):  
Nguyen Phuong Các
Keyword(s):  
Equivalence Class ◽  
Bilinear Form ◽  
Equivalence Classes ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Positive Radon Measure ◽  
Köthe Spaces ◽  
Integrable Functions ◽  
Bounded Functions ◽  
Köthe Space ◽  
Image Position

Let E be a locally compact space which can be expressed as the union of an increasing sequence of compact subsets Kn (n =1, 2, …) and let μ be a positive Radon measure on E. Ω is the space of equivalence classes of locally integrable functions on E. We denote the equivalence class of a function f by and if is an equivalence class then f denotes any function belonging to f. Provided with the topology defined by the sequence of seminormsΩ is a Fréchet space. The dual of Ω is the space φ of equivalence classes of measurable, p.p. bounded functions vanishing outside a compact subset of E. For a subset Γ of Ω, the collection Λ of all ∊Ω, such that for each g∊Γ the product fg is integrable, is called a Köthe space and Γ is said to be the denning set of Λ. The Köthe space Λx which has Λ as a denning set is called the associated Kothe space of Λ. Λ and Λx are put into duality by the bilinear form

scholarly journals EQUIVALENCE RELATIONS WHICH ARE BOREL SOMEWHERE

2017 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 893-930 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM CHAN
Keyword(s):  
Equivalence Relation ◽  
Polish Space ◽  
Equivalence Classes ◽  
Equivalence Relations ◽  
Proper Forcing ◽  
Image Position

AbstractThe following will be shown: Let I be a σ-ideal on a Polish space X so that the associated forcing of I+${\bf{\Delta }}_1^1$ sets ordered by ⊆ is a proper forcing. Let E be a ${\bf{\Sigma }}_1^1$ or a ${\bf{\Pi }}_1^1$ equivalence relation on X with all equivalence classes ${\bf{\Delta }}_1^1$. If for all $z \in {H_{{{\left( {{2^{{\aleph _0}}}} \right)}^ + }}}$, z♯ exists, then there exists an I+${\bf{\Delta }}_1^1$ set C ⊆ X such that E ↾ C is a ${\bf{\Delta }}_1^1$ equivalence relation.

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