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Noetherian Quasi-Polish Spaces

General Topology 2017-01-19 v2 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

In the presence of suitable power spaces, compactness of X\mathbf{X} can be characterized as the singleton {X}\{X\} being open in the space O(X)\mathcal{O}(\mathbf{X}) of open subsets of X\mathbf{X}. Equivalently, this means that universal quantification over a compact space preserves open predicates. Using the language of represented spaces, one can make sense of notions such as a Σ20\Sigma^0_2-subset of the space of Σ20\Sigma^0_2-subsets of a given space. This suggests higher-order analogues to compactness: We can, e.g.~, investigate the spaces X\mathbf{X} where {X}\{X\} is a Δ20\Delta^0_2-subset of the space of Δ20\Delta^0_2-subsets of X\mathbf{X}. Call this notion \nabla-compactness. As Δ20\Delta^0_2 is self-dual, we find that both universal and existential quantifier over \nabla-compact spaces preserve Δ20\Delta^0_2 predicates. Recall that a space is called Noetherian iff every subset is compact. Within the setting of Quasi-Polish spaces, we can fully characterize the \nabla-compact spaces: A Quasi-Polish space is Noetherian iff it is \nabla-compact. Note that the restriction to Quasi-Polish spaces is sufficiently general to include plenty of examples.

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@article{arxiv.1607.07291,
  title  = {Noetherian Quasi-Polish Spaces},
  author = {Matthew de Brecht and Arno Pauly},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.07291},
  year   = {2017}
}
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