Open AccessSome Logical Metatheorems with Applications in Functional Analysis
Author(s) -
Ulrich Kohlenbach
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
brics report series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1601-5355
pISSN - 0909-0878
DOI - 10.7146/brics.v10i21.21791
Subject(s) - mathematics , mathematical proof , metric space , cover (algebra) , fixed point theorem , locally convex topological vector space , inner product space , pure mathematics , discrete mathematics , bounded function , topological space , mathematical analysis , mechanical engineering , geometry , engineering
In previous papers we have developed proof-theoretic techniques for extracting effective uniform bounds from large classes of ineffective existence proofs in functional analysis. `Uniform' here means independence from parameters in compact spaces. A recent case study in fixed point theory systematically yielded uniformity even w.r.t. parameters in metrically bounded (but noncompact) subsets which had been known before only in special cases. In the present paper we prove general logical metatheorems which cover these applications to fixed point theory as special cases but are not restricted to this area at all. Our theorems guarantee under general logical conditions such strong uniform versions of non-uniform existence statements. Moreover, they provide algorithms for actually extracting effective uniform bounds and transforming the original proof into one for the stronger uniformity result. Our metatheorems deal with general classes of spaces like metric spaces, hyperbolic spaces, normed linear spaces, uniformly convex spaces as well as inner product spaces.