In this section we show that a rather strong set existence axiom,
comprehension, is needed to prove a very elementary (indeed
trivial-sounding) fact of separable Banach space theory. Namely,
-
is equivalent over
to the following statement (S):
The forward direction is the assertion that (S) is provable in
-
.
This will be obtained as a special case of:
Proof. We reason in
-
.
For each
and each finite set
,
there is a weak-*-open set
For the reversal, we must show that (S) implies
-
.
The standard
method of proving that a mathematical statement implies
-
is to
apply the following lemma [12,23]:
Proof. The assertion that Tn is well-founded is
(using the sequence
as a parameter). The implication from
(1) to (2) is therefore obvious. For
the converse, reasoning in
,
first we show
that (2) implies
.
It is well-known
(see [23]) that
is equivalent over
to the
statement that, for any one-to-one function
,
the range
of f exists. Accordingly, let
be one-to-one. By
recursive comprehension (using f as a parameter), we define a
sequence
by
if and only if
.
Note that Tn is well-founded if and only if n is
in the range of f. By (2), there is a set Wsuch that
if and only if Tn is well-founded, and so
if and only if n is in the
range of f, i.e., the range of f exists, as desired. This proves
.
Now, reasoning in
,
let
be a
formula.
By the Normal Form Theorem formalized within
(see [23]),
we can write
,
where
is
.
Use recursive comprehension to form a
sequence of trees
In showing that the implication from (S) to
-
is provable in
,
we shall want to know that some of our results from
Section 3 are provable in
.
Our
version of
part of Lemma 3.14 is:
Proof. We reason in
.
If T* is well-founded then obviously T is
well-founded, since
.
Suppose now that T* is not
well-founded. Let f be a path through T*. By recursive
comprehension form the tree
.
Since f is a path through T*, we have that for each n there
exists
such that
,
and hence
,
so Tfis infinite. Thus Tf is a bounded infinite tree. By Bounded
König's Lemma, Tf has a path. Here we are using the fact that
Bounded König's Lemma is provable in
(see [12] and
Lemma IV.1.4 of [23]). Since
,
it follows
that T has a path. This completes the proof.
Recall that a tree T is said to be smooth if T*=T. The previous lemma implies the following refinement of Lemma 5.2.
Proof. The equivalence of (1) and (2) is
Lemma 5.2. Given a sequence of trees
,
we can use recursive comprehension to form a sequence of
smooth trees
.
By the previous lemma we have
in
that for all n, Tn is well-founded if and only if
Tn* is well-founded. The equivalence of (2) and
(3) follows.
Our
version of Corollary 3.12 is:
Proof. To simplify notation, let us write
,
so that
.
Clearly ZS is a subspace of X*. In order
to show that ZS is weak-*-closed, we shall first show that
is weak-*-closed.
By arithmetical comprehension, there exists a sequence
where Ms is the least M such that
for all
.
Using
as a parameter,
let
be a
formula asserting for
the existence of
and
such that
We claim that
.
To see this, let
be given. If
,
then for some
we have
The claim implies that
is weak-*-closed.
By Corollary 4.15, it follows in
that ZS is
weak-*-closed. This completes the proof.
We are now ready to prove our main result:
Proof. The implication from (1) to (2) is just
Lemma 5.1. The implications from (2) to
(3) and (5) to
(6) are straightforward by considering the countable set
It remains to prove in
that (7) implies
-
.
First we show in
that (7) implies
.
Toward that end, let
be one-to-one; we want to show
that the range of f exists. Using f as a parameter, let
.
By (7), let C be the
smallest weak-*-closed subspace of
containing Y. Claim:
for all
,
if and only if n is in the
range of f. To see this, first suppose n=f(k) for some k. Then
for all
,
and, since
weak-* as
,
we have
.
Conversely, suppose n is not in the range of f. Then
for all
,
and hence, for all
,
.
Let C' be the set of all
such that
.
Then C' is a
weak-*-closed subspace of
which contains Y (and
hence contains C), but
.
This proves the
claim. Now, `
' is
(as C is a code for a
weak-*-closed set), whereas `n is in the range of f' is
,
so by recursive comprehension, the range of f exists, as
desired. Thus (7) implies
.
So, reasoning within
,
assume (7). Instead of proving
-
directly, we shall prove the equivalent statement given by
Lemma 5.4.
Let
be a sequence of smooth trees. By
recursive comprehension, form the set
To prove the claim, let n be such that Tn is well-founded. We
shall argue by arithmetical transfinite induction on the well-founded
tree Tn that
for all
.
(Note that arithmetical transfinite induction is available in
;
see Lemma V.2.1 of [23].) The base step consists of observing
that
implies
which implies
.
For the inductive step, let
be given such that
for all
.
Clearly
converges weak-* to
as
.
Since
C is weak-*-closed, it follows that
.
This gives the inductive step. Thus
for
all
.
In particular
,
i.e.,
.
This proves half of the claim.
For the other half, let n be such that Tn is not well-founded.
We shall show that
.
Let f be a path through Tn. By
recursive comprehension form the set
From our assumption (7) we have shown that for all
sequences of smooth trees
,
there exists a set
W consisting of all n such that Tn is well-founded. Hence by
Lemma 5.4 we see that (7) implies
comprehension, i.e., (1). This completes the proof of
Theorem 5.6.
Of course, in light of Theorem 3.21, with enough
comprehension the equivalences (2)
(3) and (4)
(5) are trivial; however, we do not know the status
of Theorem 3.21 in
.
Proof. Let X be a separable Banach space, with
a norm
closed subspace. In
-
,
since Z is norm closed there is a
countable set
such that Z is the norm closure of S(see [4], [7]). By Theorem 5.6,
there is a smallest weak-* closed subspace of X* containing S,
which must also be the smallest weak-* closed subspace of X*containing Z. Thus (1)
implies (2). The implications
(2)
(4) and
(3)
(5) are trivial, and
the implications (2)
(3)
and (4)
(5) follow
from the norm topology being stronger than the weak topology.
It remains only to prove in
that
(5)
(1). As in the proof
of Theorem 5.6, we first show that (5)
implies
.
So assume (5) and let
be one-to-one; we want to show in
that the range of fexists. By recursive comprehension (using f as a parameter), define
a tree T by
Conversely, suppose n is not in the range of f; we want to show
that
.
Let
.
Then
,
whence
.
It suffices therefore to show that ZS is
weak-* closed, because then
,
and
since
.
In fact, we'll show that
,
which is
clearly weak-* closed. Obviously, if z(t)=0 for all
,
it
follows from the definition of ZS that
.
On the other
hand, suppose
and let
be given. Since
for all
,
it follows that
,
which in turn equals
,
which equals
To prove that (5) implies
-
,
we observe that the
subspace
in the proof of Theorem 5.6
is weakly closed, so we need only repeat the
part of that
argument. This completes the proof of Theorem 5.7.