Cousin's lemma is a compactness principle that naturally arises when studying the gauge integral, a generalisation of the Lebesgue integral. We study the axiomatic strength of Cousin's lemma for various classes of functions, using Friedman and Simpson's reverse mathematics in second-order arithmetic. We prove that, over $mathsf{RCA}_0$: (i) Cousin's lemma for continuous functions is equivalent to $mathsf{WKL}_0$; (ii) Cousin's lemma for Baire class 1 functions is equivalent to $mathsf{ACA}_0$; (iii) Cousin's lemma for Baire class 2 functions, or for Borel functions, are both equivalent to $mathsf{ATR}_0$ (modulo some induction).
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Green’s general hyperplane restriction theorem gives a sharp upper bound for the Hilbert function of a standard graded algebra over an infinite field K K modulo a general linear form. We strengthen Green’s result by showing that the linear forms that do not satisfy such estimate belong to a finite union of proper linear spaces. As an application we give a method to derive variations of the Eakin-Sathaye theorem on reductions. In particular, we recover and extend results by O’Carroll on the Eakin-Sathaye theorem for complete and joint reductions.
{"title":"A hyperplane restriction theorem and applications to reductions of ideals","authors":"G. Caviglia","doi":"10.1090/bproc/103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1090/bproc/103","url":null,"abstract":"Green’s general hyperplane restriction theorem gives a sharp upper bound for the Hilbert function of a standard graded algebra over an infinite field \u0000\u0000 \u0000 K\u0000 K\u0000 \u0000\u0000 modulo a general linear form. We strengthen Green’s result by showing that the linear forms that do not satisfy such estimate belong to a finite union of proper linear spaces. As an application we give a method to derive variations of the Eakin-Sathaye theorem on reductions. In particular, we recover and extend results by O’Carroll on the Eakin-Sathaye theorem for complete and joint reductions.","PeriodicalId":106316,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Series B","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133815953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}