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Separation and Weak König's Lemma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

A. James Humphreys
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA 16802, E-mail:, jimbo@math.psu.edu
Stephen G. Simpson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA 16802, E-mail:, simpson@math.psu.edu

Abstract

We continue the work of [14, 3, 1, 19, 16, 4, 12, 11, 20] investigating the strength of set existence axioms needed for separable Banach space theory. We show that the separation theorem for open convex sets is equivalent to WKL0 over RCA0. We show that the separation theorem for separably closed convex sets is equivalent to ACA0 over RCA0. Our strategy for proving these geometrical Hahn–Banach theorems is to reduce to the finite-dimensional case by means of a compactness argument.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1999

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