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A Direct Constructive Proof of a Stone-Weierstrass Theorem for Metric Spaces

verfasst von : Iosif Petrakis

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Abstract

We present a constructive proof of a Stone-Weierstrass theorem for totally bounded metric spaces (\(\mathrm {\mathbf {SWtbms}}\)) which implies Bishop’s Stone-Weierstrass theorem for compact metric spaces (\(\mathrm {\mathbf {BSWcms}}\)) found in [3]. Our proof has a clear computational content, in contrast to Bishop’s highly technical proof of \(\mathrm {\mathbf {BSWcms}}\) and his hard to motivate concept of a (Bishop-)separating set of uniformly continuous functions. All corollaries of \(\mathrm {\mathbf {BSWcms}}\) in [3] are proved directly by \(\mathrm {\mathbf {SWtbms}}\). We work within Bishop’s informal system of constructive mathematics \(\mathrm {BISH}\).

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Fußnoten
1
Bishop’s original term is that of a separating set, which we avoid here in the presence of the standard classical notion of a separating subset of C(X).
 
2
The proof goes as follows. By the constructive trichotomy property (see [3], p. 26) either \(a < c\) or \(a \wedge b < a\). In the first case we get immediately what we want to show. In the second case we get that \(b \le a\), since if \(b > a\), we have that \(a = a \wedge b < a\), which is a contradiction. Thus \(a \wedge b = b\) and the hypothesis \(a \wedge b < c\) becomes \(b < c\).
 
3
By the definition of \(\inf A\) in [3], p. 37, we have that \(\forall _{\epsilon > 0}\exists _{a \in A}(a < \inf A + \epsilon )\), therefore if \(b > \inf A\) and \(\epsilon = b - \inf A > 0\) we get that \(\exists _{a \in A}(a < \inf A + (b - \inf A) = b)\).
 
4
To show that \(\lnot {(g^{*}(x) > f(x) + \epsilon )}\) we just use the fact that if \(A \subseteq {\mathbb R}, b \in {\mathbb R}\), then \(\sup A> b \rightarrow \exists _{a \in A}(a > b)\). The function \(g^{*}\) is mentioned in [19], where non-constructive properties of the classical \(({\mathbb R}, <)\) are used.
 
5
The first, in p. 414, is the uniform approximation of a test function f(xy) on \(G \times G\), where G is a locally compact group, by finite sums of the form \(\sum _{i}f_{i}(x)g_{i}(y)\), and the second, in p. 375, is a density theorem in the theory of Hilbert spaces.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
A Direct Constructive Proof of a Stone-Weierstrass Theorem for Metric Spaces
verfasst von
Iosif Petrakis
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40189-8_37