[FOM] constructive Tychonov

Andrej Bauer Andrej.Bauer at fmf.uni-lj.si
Wed Nov 28 10:54:21 EST 2007


Robert Black wrote:
> Is there a constructively provable version of the Tychonov product 
> theorem? And if there is, exactly what does it say, and what 
> definition of 'compact' does it use?

Yes, see for example Steve Vicker's "Some constructive roads to
Tychonoff", published in "From Sets and Types to Topology and Analysis:
Towards Practicable Foundations for Constructive Mathematics", Edited by
Laura Crosilla and Peter Schuster, Oxford University Press, 2005,
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198566519

The paper can be downloaded at
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~sjv/InfiniteTych.pdf

Best regards,

Andrej



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