Compactness in Constructive Mathematics via Affine Logic
Logic
2026-03-23 v2 General Topology
Abstract
We study topology, particularly compactness, as an extension of Shulman's work on constructive mathematics via affine logic, while allowing propositional impredicativity. We introduce a notion of compactness in affine logic and prove the fundamental properties of compactness, including the extreme value theorem and the Heine-Borel theorem for 'cuts', which are a version of Dedekind cuts in affine logic. Moreover, from the antithesis translation of the Heine-Borel theorem for cuts to intuitionistic logic, we derive the Heine-Borel theorem for one-sided reals intuitionistically, and have verified the proof with an interactive theorem prover. The code is available at https://github.com/hziwara/CutsHeineBorel.
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@article{arxiv.2602.19003,
title = {Compactness in Constructive Mathematics via Affine Logic},
author = {Kazumi Kasaura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.19003},
year = {2026}
}
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14 pages