ON ROBUST THEOREMS DUE TO BOLZANO, WEIERSTRASS, JORDAN, AND CANTOR
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- 3 October 2022
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- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Symbolic Logic
Abstract
Reverse Mathematics (RM hereafter) is a program in the foundations of mathematics where the aim is to identify the minimal axioms needed to prove a given theorem from ordinary, i.e., non-set theoretic, mathematics. This program has unveiled surprising regularities: the minimal axioms are very often equivalent to the theorem over the base theory, a weak system of 'computable mathematics', while most theorems are either provable in this base theory, or equivalent to one of only four logical systems. The latter plus the base theory are called the 'Big Five' and the associated equivalences are robust following Montalban, i.e., stable under small variations of the theorems at hand. Working in Kohlenbach's higher-order RM, we obtain two new and long series of equivalences based on theorems due to Bolzano, Weierstrass, Jordan, and Cantor; these equivalences are extremely robust and have no counterpart among the Big Five systems. Thus, higher-order RM is much richer than its second-order cousin, boasting at least two extra 'Big' systems.Keywords
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