Weak weak Koenig and covering spaces
Timothy Y. Chow
tchow at math.princeton.edu
Wed May 12 00:08:30 EDT 2021
On Mon, 10 May 2021, I wrote:
> The reason I ask is that I was recently refreshing my memory about some
> of those results, and it seems that some version of the Vitali covering
> lemma is typically used when lifting a map to a covering space. So
> maybe the weak weak Koenig lemma is needed?
I looked more carefully and found that in Munkres's textbook "Topology,"
the key lemma seems to be something he calls the "Lebesgue number lemma":
Lemma. Let A be an open covering of a compact metric space. Then there
exists delta > 0 such that every subset of X with diameter less than delta
is contained in some element of A.
Is this Lemma provable in RCA_0?
Tim
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