Anti-Specker Properties in Constructive Reverse Mathematics

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Mathematics
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Doctor of Philosophy
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University of Canterbury. Department of Mathematics and Statistics
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2013
Authors
Dent, James Edgar
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Constructive reverse mathematics is a programme in which non- and semi-constructive principles are classified in accordance with which other principles they imply or are implied by, relative to the framework of Bishop-style constructive mathematics. One such principle that has come under focus in recent years is an antithesis of Specker's theorem (that theorem being a characteristic result of Russian recursive mathematics): this so-called anti-Specker property is intuitionistically valid, and of considerable utility in proving results of real and complex analysis.

We introduce several new weakenings of the anti-Specker property and explore their role in constructive reverse mathematics, identifying implication relationships that they stand in to other notable principles. These include, but are not limited to: variations upon Brouwer's fan theorem, certain compactness properties, and so-called zero-stability properties. We also give similar classification results for principles arising directly from Specker's theorem itself, and present new, direct proofs of related fan-theoretic results.

We investigate how anti-Specker properties, alongside power-series-based arguments, enable us to recover information about the structure of holomorphic functions: in particular, they allow us to streamline a sequence of maximum-modulus theorems.

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anti-Specker property, constructive mathematics, constructive reverse mathematics, fan theorem, holomorphy, maximum-modulus theorem, power series, zero-stability
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