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On finite approximations of topological algebraic systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

L. Yu. Glebsky ,
E. I. Gordon  and
C. Ward Henson
L. Yu. Glebsky
Affiliation:
Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Instituto de Investigacion en Communicacion Optica, Avkarakorum 1470, Lomas 4TA Session, San Luis Potosi SLP 7820, Mexico. E-mail: [email protected]
E. I. Gordon
Affiliation:
Eastern Illinois University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, 600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, IL 61920-3099, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
C. Ward Henson
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Mathematics, 1409 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.math.uiuc.edu/˜henson
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Abstract

We introduce and discuss a concept of approximation of a topological algebraic system A by finite algebraic systems from a given class . If A is discrete, this concept agrees with the familiar notion of a local embedding of A in a class of algebraic systems. One characterization of this concept states that A is locally embedded in iff it is a subsystem of an ultraproduct of systems from . In this paper we obtain a similar characterization of approximability of a locally compact system A by systems from 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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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 72 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 1 - 25
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2007

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