ON FINITE APPROXIMATIONS OF TOPOLOGICAL ALGEBRAIC SYSTEMS.

We introduce and discuss a concept of approximation of a topological algebraic system A by finite algebraic systems from a given class K. If A is discrete, this concept agrees with the familiar notion of a local embedding of A in a class K of algebraic systems. One characterization of this concept s...

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Publicado en:Journal of Symbolic Logic Vol. 72; no. 1; pp. 1 - 26
Autores principales: Glebsky, L. Yu, Gordon, E. I., Henson, C. Ward
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Mar2007
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          Glebsky, L. Yu
          Gordon, E. I.
          Henson, C. Ward
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          Universidad Autonoma De San Luis Potosi, Instituto de Investigacion En Communicacion Optica, Avrakakorum 1470, Lomas 4ta Session, San Luis Potosi SLP 7820, Mexico
          Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eastern Illinois University, 600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, IL 61920-3099, USA
          Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urban-Champaign, 1409 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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        Mathematical logic
        Topological algebras
        Algebraic topology
        Banach spaces
        Topology
        Ring theory
        Computer arithmetic
        Associative rings
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          Algebraic topology
          Banach spaces
          Topology
          Ring theory
          Computer arithmetic
          Associative rings
      ab: We introduce and discuss a concept of approximation of a topological algebraic system A by finite algebraic systems from a given class K. If A is discrete, this concept agrees with the familiar notion of a local embedding of A in a class K of algebraic systems. One characterization of this concept states that A is locally embedded in K iff it is a subsystem of an ultraproduct of systems from K. In this paper we obtain a similar characterization of approximability of a locally compact system A by systems from K using the language of nonstandard analysis. In the signature of A we introduce positive bounded formulas and their approximations: these are similar to those introduced by Henson [14] for Banach space structures (see also [15, 16]). We prove that a positive bounded formula φ holds in A if and only if all precise enough approximations of φ hold in all precise enough approximations of A. We also prove that a locally compact field cannot be approximated arbitrarily closely by finite (associative) rings (even if the rings are allowed to be non-commutative). Finite approximations of the field R can be considered as possible computer systems for real arithmetic. Thus, our results show that there do not exist arbitrarily accurate computer arithmetics for the reals that are associative rings.
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