Removing the closure from Henkel's approximation #
The Baire step of Henkel's open mapping theorem produces a point of closure (f '' U), not of
f '' U, and every step after it inherits that closure. This file removes it: over a complete
source with a basis of open subgroups at zero, a point of closure (f '' V 0) really is the
image of a point of V 0.
Three ingredients meet here, and each supplies exactly one thing.
- The approximating sequence of
TauCeti/Topology/Algebra/OpenMapping/Sequence.leangives errorsx n ∈ V nwhose partial sums leave a residual inclosure (f '' V (n + 1)). - Completeness turns those errors into an actual sum: they tend to zero along the basis, and a null sequence in a complete nonarchimedean group is summable.
- Regularity of the target sends the residuals to zero. Continuity controls
f '' V (n + 1)and never its closure, so it cannot do this alone; what does it is that a neighbourhood of zero inNcontains the closure of a neighbourhood (hasBasis_nhds_closure).
The subgroups do the rest of the work: the sum of the errors stays inside V 0 because V 0 is
a subgroup and, being a neighbourhood of zero, is closed.
Main results #
TauCeti.mem_image_of_mem_closure_image:closure (f '' V 0) ⊆ f '' V 0, in the presence of a basis of subgroups, completeness, and the neighbourhood hypothesis the Baire step supplies.
References #
- L. Henkel, An Open Mapping Theorem for rings which have a zero sequence of units, arXiv:1407.5647.
Henkel's approximation converges. Let V be an antitone basis of subgroups at zero in a
complete group M, let f : M → N be an additive map continuous at zero, and suppose each
closure (f '' V (n + 1)) is a neighbourhood of zero — which is what the Baire step of Henkel's
theorem provides. Then every point of closure (f '' V 0) is already the image of a point of
V 0.
M is not assumed nonarchimedean: a basis of subgroups at zero is exactly that condition, and
the proof reconstructs the instance from hV. N need not be commutative, and separation of it
is used only to identify the two limits of the partial sums.