Well-founded sets #
This file introduces versions of WellFounded
and WellQuasiOrdered
for sets.
Main Definitions #
Set.WellFoundedOn s r
indicates that the relationr
is well-founded when restricted to the sets
.Set.IsWF s
indicates that<
is well-founded when restricted tos
.Set.PartiallyWellOrderedOn s r
indicates that the relationr
is partially well-ordered (also known as well quasi-ordered) when restricted to the sets
.Set.IsPWO s
indicates that any infinite sequence of elements ins
contains an infinite monotone subsequence. Note that this is equivalent to containing only two comparable elements.
Main Results #
- Higman's Lemma,
Set.PartiallyWellOrderedOn.partiallyWellOrderedOn_sublistForall₂
, shows that ifr
is partially well-ordered ons
, thenList.SublistForall₂
is partially well-ordered on the set of lists of elements ofs
. The result was originally published by Higman, but this proof more closely follows Nash-Williams. Set.wellFoundedOn_iff
relateswell_founded_on
to the well-foundedness of a relation on the original type, to avoid dealing with subtypes.Set.IsWF.mono
shows that a subset of a well-founded subset is well-founded.Set.IsWF.union
shows that the union of two well-founded subsets is well-founded.Finset.isWF
shows that allFinset
s are well-founded.
TODO #
- Prove that
s
is partially well-ordered iff it has no infinite descending chain or antichain. - Rename
Set.PartiallyWellOrderedOn
toSet.WellQuasiOrderedOn
andSet.IsPWO
toSet.IsWQO
.
References #
- [Higman, Ordering by Divisibility in Abstract Algebras][Higman52]
- [Nash-Williams, On Well-Quasi-Ordering Finite Trees][Nash-Williams63]
Relations well-founded on sets #
s.WellFoundedOn r
indicates that the relation r
is WellFounded
when restricted to s
.
Equations
- s.WellFoundedOn r = WellFounded (Subrel r fun (x : α) => x ∈ s)
Instances For
a
is accessible under the relation r
iff r
is well-founded on the downward transitive
closure of a
under r
(including a
or not).
Sets well-founded w.r.t. the strict inequality #
Partially well-ordered sets #
s.PartiallyWellOrderedOn r
indicates that the relation r
is WellQuasiOrdered
when
restricted to s
.
A set is partially well-ordered by a relation r
when any infinite sequence contains two elements
where the first is related to the second by r
. Equivalently, any antichain (see IsAntichain
) is
finite, see Set.partiallyWellOrderedOn_iff_finite_antichains
.
TODO: rename this to WellQuasiOrderedOn
to match WellQuasiOrdered
.
Equations
- s.PartiallyWellOrderedOn r = WellQuasiOrdered (Subrel r fun (x : α) => x ∈ s)
Instances For
A subset of a preorder is partially well-ordered when any infinite sequence contains a monotone subsequence of length 2 (or equivalently, an infinite monotone subsequence).
Equations
- s.IsPWO = s.PartiallyWellOrderedOn fun (x1 x2 : α) => x1 ≤ x2
Instances For
Alias of the reverse direction of Set.isPWO_iff_isWF
.
In a linear order, the predicates Set.IsPWO
and Set.IsWF
are equivalent.
If α
is a linear order with well-founded <
, then any set in it is a partially well-ordered set.
Note this does not hold without the linearity assumption.
Set.IsWF.min
returns a minimal element of a nonempty well-founded set.
Equations
- hs.min hn = ↑(WellFounded.min hs Set.univ ⋯)
Instances For
In the context of partial well-orderings, a bad sequence is a nonincreasing sequence
whose range is contained in a particular set s
. One exists if and only if s
is not
partially well-ordered.
Equations
Instances For
This indicates that every bad sequence g
that agrees with f
on the first n
terms has rk (f n) ≤ rk (g n)
.
Equations
- Set.PartiallyWellOrderedOn.IsMinBadSeq r rk s n f = ∀ (g : ℕ → α), (∀ m < n, f m = g m) → rk (g n) < rk (f n) → ¬Set.PartiallyWellOrderedOn.IsBadSeq r s g
Instances For
Given a bad sequence f
, this constructs a bad sequence that agrees with f
on the first n
terms and is minimal at n
.
Equations
- One or more equations did not get rendered due to their size.
Instances For
Higman's Lemma, which states that for any reflexive, transitive relation r
which is
partially well-ordered on a set s
, the relation List.SublistForall₂ r
is partially
well-ordered on the set of lists of elements of s
. That relation is defined so that
List.SublistForall₂ r l₁ l₂
whenever l₁
related pointwise by r
to a sublist of l₂
.
A version of Dickson's lemma any subset of functions Π s : σ, α s
is partially well
ordered, when σ
is a Fintype
and each α s
is a linear well order.
This includes the classical case of Dickson's lemma that ℕ ^ n
is a well partial order.
Some generalizations would be possible based on this proof, to include cases where the target is
partially well-ordered, and also to consider the case of Set.PartiallyWellOrderedOn
instead of
Set.IsPWO
.
Stronger version of WellFounded.prod_lex
. Instead of requiring rβ on g
to be well-founded,
we only require it to be well-founded on fibers of f
.
Stronger version of PSigma.lex_wf
. Instead of requiring rπ on g
to be well-founded, we only
require it to be well-founded on fibers of f
.