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Iosif Petrakis

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Closed subsets in Bishop topological groups

We introduce the notion of a Bishop topological group i.e., a group X equipped with a Bishop topology of functions F such that the group operations of X are Bishop morphisms with respect to F. A closed subset in the neighborhood structure of X induced by its Bishop topology F is defined in a positive way i.e., not as the complement of an open subset in X. The corresponding closure operator, although it is not topological, in the classical sense, does not involve sequences. As countable choice (CC) is avoided, and in agreement with Richman's critique on the use of CC in constructive mathematics, the fundamental facts on closed subsets in Bishop topological groups shown here have a clear algorithmic content. We work within Bishop's informal system of constructive mathematics BISH, without countable choice, equipped with inductive definitions with rules of countably many premises.

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McShane-Whitney extensions in constructive analysis

Within Bishop-style constructive mathematics we study the classical McShane-Whitney theorem on the extendability of real-valued Lipschitz functions defined on a subset of a metric space. Using a formulation similar to the formulation of McShane-Whitney theorem, we show that the Lipschitz real-valued functions on a totally bounded space are uniformly dense in the set of uniformly continuous functions. Through the introduced notion of a McShane-Whitney pair we describe the constructive content of the original McShane-Whitney extension and examine how the properties of a Lipschitz function defined on the subspace of the pair extend to its McShane-Whitney extensions on the space of the pair. Similar McShane-Whitney pairs and extensions are established for Hölder functions and $ν$-continuous functions, where $ν$ is a modulus of continuity. A Lipschitz version of a fundamental corollary of the Hahn-Banach theorem, and the approximate McShane-Whitney theorem are shown.

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