Nöbeling's theorem #
This file proves Nöbeling's theorem.
Main result #
LocallyConstant.freeOfProfinite: Nöbeling's theorem. ForS : Profinite, theℤ-moduleLocallyConstant S ℤis free.
Proof idea #
We follow the proof of theorem 5.4 in [scholze2019condensed], in which the idea is to embed S in
a product of I copies of Bool for some sufficiently large I, and then to choose a
well-ordering on I and use ordinal induction over that well-order. Here we can let I be
the set of clopen subsets of S since S is totally separated.
The above means it suffices to prove the following statement: For a closed subset C of I → Bool,
the ℤ-module LocallyConstant C ℤ is free.
For i : I, let e C i : LocallyConstant C ℤ denote the map fun f ↦ (if f.val i then 1 else 0).
The basis will consist of products e C iᵣ * ⋯ * e C i₁ with iᵣ > ⋯ > i₁ which cannot be written
as linear combinations of lexicographically smaller products. We call this set GoodProducts C
What is proved by ordinal induction is that this set is linearly independent. The fact that it spans can be proved directly.
References #
- [scholze2019condensed], Theorem 5.4.
Projection maps #
The purpose of this section is twofold.
Firstly, in the proof that the set GoodProducts C spans the whole module LocallyConstant C ℤ,
we need to project C down to finite discrete subsets and write C as a cofiltered limit of those.
Secondly, in the inductive argument, we need to project C down to "smaller" sets satisfying the
inductive hypothesis.
In this section we define the relevant projection maps and prove some compatibility results.
Main definitions #
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Let
J : I → Prop. ThenProj J : (I → Bool) → (I → Bool)is the projection mapping everything that satisfiesJ ito itself, and everything else tofalse. -
The image of
CunderProj Jis denotedπ C Jand the corresponding mapC → π C Jis calledProjRestrict. IfJimpliesKwe have a mapProjRestricts : π C K → π C J. -
spanCone_isLimitestablishes that whenCis compact, it can be written as a limit of its images under the mapsProj (· ∈ s)wheres : Finset I.
The projection mapping everything that satisfies J i to itself, and everything else to false
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.Proj J c i = if J i then c i else false
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The restriction of Proj π J to a subset, mapping to its image.
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A variant of ProjRestrict with domain of the form π C K
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The objectwise map in the isomorphism spanFunctor ≅ Profinite.indexFunctor.
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For a given compact subset C of I → Bool, spanFunctor is the functor from the poset of finsets
of I to Profinite, sending a finite subset set J to the image of C under the projection
Proj J.
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The limit cone on spanFunctor with point C.
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Defining the basis #
Our proposed basis consists of products e C iᵣ * ⋯ * e C i₁ with iᵣ > ⋯ > i₁ which cannot be
written as linear combinations of lexicographically smaller products. See below for the definition
of e.
Main definitions #
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For
i : I, we lete C i : LocallyConstant C ℤdenote the mapfun f ↦ (if f.val i then 1 else 0). -
Products Iis the type of lists of decreasing elements ofI, so a typical element is[i₁, i₂,..., iᵣ]withi₁ > i₂ > ... > iᵣ. -
Products.eval Cis theC-evaluation of a list. It takes a term[i₁, i₂,..., iᵣ] : Products Iand returns the actual producte C i₁ ··· e C iᵣ : LocallyConstant C ℤ. -
GoodProducts Cis the set ofProducts Isuch that theirC-evaluation cannot be written as a linear combination of evaluations of lexicographically smaller lists.
Main results #
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Products.evalFacPropandProducts.evalFacPropsestablish the fact thatProducts.evalinteracts nicely with the projection maps from the previous section. -
GoodProducts.span_iff_products: the good products spanLocallyConstant C ℤiff all the products spanLocallyConstant C ℤ.
Products I is the type of lists of decreasing elements of I, so a typical element is
[i₁, i₂, ...] with i₁ > i₂ > .... We order Products I lexicographically, so [] < [i₁, ...],
and [i₁, i₂, ...] < [j₁, j₂, ...] if either i₁ < j₁, or i₁ = j₁ and [i₂, ...] < [j₂, ...].
Terms m = [i₁, i₂, ..., iᵣ] of this type will be used to represent products of the form
e C i₁ ··· e C iᵣ : LocallyConstant C ℤ . The function associated to m is m.eval.
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.Products I = { l : List I // List.Chain' (fun (x x_1 : I) => x > x_1) l }
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.Products.instLinearOrderProducts = inferInstanceAs (LinearOrder { l : List I // List.Chain' (fun (x x_1 : I) => x > x_1) l })
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- ⋯ = ⋯
The evaluation e C i₁ ··· e C iᵣ : C → ℤ of a formal product [i₁, i₂, ..., iᵣ].
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The predicate on products which we prove picks out a basis of LocallyConstant C ℤ. We call such a
product "good".
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The set of good products.
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Evaluation of good products.
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The image of the good products in the module LocallyConstant C ℤ.
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The type of good products is equivalent to its image.
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The good products span LocallyConstant C ℤ if and only all the products do.
The good products span #
Most of the argument is developing an API for π C (· ∈ s) when s : Finset I; then the image
of C is finite with the discrete topology. In this case, there is a direct argument that the good
products span. The general result is deduced from this.
Main theorems #
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GoodProducts.spanFin: The good products span the locally constant functions onπ C (· ∈ s)ifsis finite. -
GoodProducts.span: The good products spanLocallyConstant C ℤfor every closed subsetC.
The ℤ-linear map induced by precomposition of the projection C → π C (· ∈ s).
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.πJ C s = LocallyConstant.comapₗ ℤ (Profinite.NobelingProof.ProjRestrict C fun (x : I) => x ∈ s) ⋯
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π C (· ∈ s) is finite for a finite set s.
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The Kronecker delta as a locally constant map from π C (· ∈ s) to ℤ.
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.spanFinBasis C s x = { toFun := fun (y : ↑(Profinite.NobelingProof.π C fun (x : I) => x ∈ s)) => if y = x then 1 else 0, isLocallyConstant := ⋯ }
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A certain explicit list of locally constant maps. The theorem factors_prod_eq_basis shows that the
product of the elements in this list is the delta function spanFinBasis C s x.
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If s is finite, the product of the elements of the list factors C s x
is the delta function at x.
If s is a finite subset of I, then the good products span.
The good products span all of LocallyConstant C ℤ if C is closed.
Relating elements of the well-order I with ordinals #
We choose a well-ordering on I. This amounts to regarding I as an ordinal, and as such it
can be regarded as the set of all strictly smaller ordinals, allowing to apply ordinal induction.
Main definitions #
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ord I iis the termiofIregarded as an ordinal. -
term I hois a sufficiently small ordinal regarded as a term ofI. -
contained C ois a predicate saying thatCis "small" enough in relation to the ordinaloto satisfy the inductive hypothesis. -
P Iis the predicate on ordinals about linear independence of good products, which the rest of this file is spent on proving by induction.
A term of I regarded as an ordinal.
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.ord I i = Ordinal.typein (fun (x x_1 : I) => x < x_1) i
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An ordinal regarded as a term of I.
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.term I ho = Ordinal.enum (fun (x x_1 : I) => x < x_1) o ho
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A predicate saying that C is "small" enough to satisfy the inductive hypothesis.
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.contained C o = ∀ f ∈ C, ∀ (i : I), f i = true → Profinite.NobelingProof.ord I i < o
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The predicate on ordinals which we prove by induction, see GoodProducts.P0,
GoodProducts.Plimit and GoodProducts.linearIndependentAux in the section Induction below
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The zero case of the induction #
In this case, we have contained C 0 which means that C is either empty or a singleton.
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The empty list as a Products
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.Products.nil = { val := [], property := ⋯ }
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There is a unique GoodProducts for the singleton {fun _ ↦ false}.
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ℤ-linear maps induced by projections #
We define injective ℤ-linear maps between modules of the form LocallyConstant C ℤ induced by
precomposition with the projections defined in the section Projections.
Main definitions #
πsandπs'are theℤ-linear maps corresponding toProjRestrictandProjRestrictsrespectively.
Main result #
- We prove that
πsandπs'interact well withProducts.evaland the main application is the theoremisGood_monowhich says that the propertyisGoodis "monotone" on ordinals.
The ℤ-linear map induced by precomposition of the projection C → π C (ord I · < o).
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.πs C o = LocallyConstant.comapₗ ℤ (Profinite.NobelingProof.ProjRestrict C fun (x : I) => Profinite.NobelingProof.ord I x < o) ⋯
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The ℤ-linear map induced by precomposition of the projection
π C (ord I · < o₂) → π C (ord I · < o₁) for o₁ ≤ o₂.
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If l is good w.r.t. π C (ord I · < o₁) and o₁ ≤ o₂, then it is good w.r.t.
π C (ord I · < o₂)
The limit case of the induction #
We relate linear independence in LocallyConstant (π C (ord I · < o')) ℤ with linear independence
in LocallyConstant C ℤ, where contained C o and o' < o.
When o is a limit ordinal, we prove that the good products in LocallyConstant C ℤ are linearly
independent if and only if a certain directed union is linearly independent. Each term in this
directed union is in bijection with the good products w.r.t. π C (ord I · < o') for an ordinal
o' < o, and these are linearly independent by the inductive hypothesis.
Main definitions #
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GoodProducts.smalleris the image of good products coming from a smaller ordinal. -
GoodProducts.range_equiv: The image of theGoodProductsinCis equivalent to the union ofsmaller C o'over all ordinalso' < o.
Main results #
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Products.limitOrdinal: foroa limit ordinal such thatcontained C o, a productlis good w.r.t.Ciff it there exists an ordinalo' < osuch thatlis good w.r.t.π C (ord I · < o'). -
GoodProducts.linearIndependent_iff_union_smalleris the result mentioned above, that the good products are linearly independent iff a directed union is.
The image of the GoodProducts for π C (ord I · < o) in LocallyConstant C ℤ. The name smaller
refers to the setting in which we will use this, when we are mapping in GoodProducts from a
smaller set, i.e. when o is a smaller ordinal than the one C is "contained" in.
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The map from the image of the GoodProducts in LocallyConstant (π C (ord I · < o)) ℤ to
smaller C o
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.GoodProducts.range_equiv_smaller_toFun C o x = { val := (Profinite.NobelingProof.πs C o) ↑x, property := ⋯ }
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The equivalence from the image of the GoodProducts in LocallyConstant (π C (ord I · < o)) ℤ to
smaller C o
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The image of the GoodProducts in C is equivalent to the union of smaller C o' over all
ordinals o' < o.
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The successor case in the induction #
Here we assume that o is an ordinal such that contained C (o+1) and o < I. The element in I
corresponding to o is called term I ho, but in this informal docstring we refer to it simply as
o.
This section follows the proof in [scholze2019condensed] quite closely. A translation of the notation there is as follows:
[scholze2019condensed] | This file
`S₀` |`C0`
`S₁` |`C1`
`\overline{S}` |`π C (ord I · < o)
`\overline{S}'` |`C'`
The left map in the exact sequence |`πs`
The right map in the exact sequence |`Linear_CC'`
When comparing the proof of the successor case in Theorem 5.4 in [scholze2019condensed] with this proof, one should read the phrase "is a basis" as "is linearly independent". Also, the short exact sequence in [scholze2019condensed] is only proved to be left exact here (indeed, that is enough since we are only proving linear independence).
This section is split into two sections. The first one, ExactSequence defines the left exact
sequence mentioned in the previous paragraph (see succ_mono and succ_exact). It corresponds to
the penultimate paragraph of the proof in [scholze2019condensed]. The second one, GoodProducts
corresponds to the last paragraph in the proof in [scholze2019condensed].
Main definitions #
The main definitions in the section ExactSequence are all just notation explained in the table
above.
The main definitions in the section GoodProducts are as follows:
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MaxProducts: the set of good products that contain the ordinalo(since we havecontained C (o+1), these all start witho). -
GoodProducts.sum_equiv: the equivalence betweenGoodProducts Cand the disjoint union ofMaxProducts CandGoodProducts (π C (ord I · < o)).
Main results #
- The main results in the section
ExactSequencearesucc_monoandsucc_exactwhich together say that the secuence given byπsandLinear_CC'is left exact:
wheref g 0 --→ LocallyConstant (π C (ord I · < o)) ℤ --→ LocallyConstant C ℤ --→ LocallyConstant C' ℤfisπsandgisLinear_CC'.
The main results in the section GoodProducts are as follows:
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Products.max_eq_evalsays that the linear map on the right in the exact sequence, i.e.Linear_CC', takes the evaluation of a term ofMaxProductsto the evaluation of the corresponding list with the leadingoremoved. -
GoodProducts.maxTail_isGoodsays that removing the leadingofrom a term ofMaxProducts Cyields a list whichisGoodwith respect toC'.
The subset of C consisting of those elements whose o-th entry is false.
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.C0 C ho = C ∩ {f : I → Bool | f (Profinite.NobelingProof.term I ho) = false}
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The subset of C consisting of those elements whose o-th entry is true.
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.C1 C ho = C ∩ {f : I → Bool | f (Profinite.NobelingProof.term I ho) = true}
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The intersection of C0 and the projection of C1. We will apply the inductive hypothesis to
this set.
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.C' C ho = Profinite.NobelingProof.C0 C ho ∩ Profinite.NobelingProof.π (Profinite.NobelingProof.C1 C ho) fun (x : I) => Profinite.NobelingProof.ord I x < o
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Swapping the o-th coordinate to true.
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.SwapTrue o f i = if Profinite.NobelingProof.ord I i = o then true else f i
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The first way to map C' into C.
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.CC'₀ C ho g = { val := ↑g, property := ⋯ }
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The second way to map C' into C.
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.CC'₁ C hsC ho g = { val := Profinite.NobelingProof.SwapTrue o ↑g, property := ⋯ }
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The ℤ-linear map induced by precomposing with CC'₀
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The ℤ-linear map induced by precomposing with CC'₁
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.Linear_CC'₁ C hsC ho = LocallyConstant.comapₗ ℤ (Profinite.NobelingProof.CC'₁ C hsC ho) ⋯
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The difference between Linear_CC'₁ and Linear_CC'₀.
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.Linear_CC' C hsC ho = Profinite.NobelingProof.Linear_CC'₁ C hsC ho - Profinite.NobelingProof.Linear_CC'₀ C ho
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The GoodProducts in C that contain o (they necessarily start with o, see
GoodProducts.head!_eq_o_of_maxProducts)
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The inclusion map from the sum of GoodProducts (π C (ord I · < o)) and
(MaxProducts C ho) to Products I.
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.GoodProducts.sum_to C ho = Sum.elim Subtype.val Subtype.val
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The equivalence from the sum of GoodProducts (π C (ord I · < o)) and
(MaxProducts C ho) to GoodProducts C.
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Let
N := LocallyConstant (π C (ord I · < o)) ℤ
M := LocallyConstant C ℤ
P := LocallyConstant (C' C ho) ℤ
ι := GoodProducts (π C (ord I · < o))
ι' := GoodProducts (C' C ho')
v : ι → N := GoodProducts.eval (π C (ord I · < o))
Then SumEval C ho is the map u in the diagram below. It is linearly independent if and only if
GoodProducts.eval C is, see linearIndependent_iff_sum. The top row is the exact sequence given
by succ_exact and succ_mono. The left square commutes by GoodProducts.square_commutes.
0 --→ N --→ M --→ P
↑ ↑ ↑
v| u| |
ι → ι ⊕ ι' ← ι'
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.Products.Tail l = { val := List.tail ↑l, property := ⋯ }
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Removing the leading o from a term of MaxProducts C yields a list which isGood with respect to
C'.
Given l : MaxProducts C ho, its Tail is a GoodProducts (C' C ho).
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- Profinite.NobelingProof.GoodProducts.MaxToGood C hC hsC ho h₁ l = { val := Profinite.NobelingProof.Products.Tail ↑l, property := ⋯ }
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The induction #
Here we put together the results of the sections Zero, Limit and Successor to prove the
predicate P I o holds for all ordinals o, and conclude with the main result:
GoodProducts.linearIndependentwhich says thatGoodProducts Cis linearly independent whenCis closed.
We also define
GoodProducts.Basiswhich usesGoodProducts.linearIndependentandGoodProducts.spanto define a basis forLocallyConstant C ℤ
GoodProducts C as a ℤ-basis for LocallyConstant C ℤ.
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Given a profinite set S and a closed embedding S → (I → Bool), the ℤ-module
LocallyConstant C ℤ is free.
The embedding S → (I → Bool) where I is the set of clopens of S.
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- Profinite.Nobeling.ι S s C = decide (s ∈ ↑C)
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The map Nobeling.ι is a closed embedding.
Nöbeling's theorem: the ℤ-module LocallyConstant S ℤ is free for every S : Profinite
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