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Some logical metatheorems with applications in functional analysis
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Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 357 (2005), 89-128 Request permission

Abstract:

In previous papers we have developed proof-theoretic techniques for extracting effective uniform bounds from large classes of ineffective existence proofs in functional analysis. Here ‘uniform’ 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, CAT(0)-spaces, normed linear spaces, uniformly convex spaces, as well as inner product spaces.
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  • Ulrich Kohlenbach
  • Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
  • Email: kohlenb@brics.dk
  • Received by editor(s): May 12, 2003
  • Published electronically: January 29, 2004
  • Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by the Danish Natural Science Research Council, Grant no. 21-02-0474, and BRICS, Basic Research in Computer Science, funded by the Danish National Research Foundation
  • © Copyright 2004 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 357 (2005), 89-128
  • MSC (2000): Primary 03F10, 03F35, 47H09, 47H10
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-04-03515-9
  • MathSciNet review: 2098088