Title
On constructing completions
Abstract
The Dedekind cuts in an ordered set forma set in the sense of constructive Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory. We deduce this statement from the principle of refinement, which we distill before from the axiom of fullness. Together with exponentiation. refinement is equivalent to fullness. None of the defining properties of an ordering is needed. and only refinement for two-element coverings is used. In particular. the Dedekind reals form a set: whence we have also refined an earlier result by Aczel and Rathjen. who invoked the full form of fullness. To further generalise this. we look at Richman's method to complete an arbitrary metric space without sequences. which he designed to avoid countable choice. The completion of a separable metric space turns out to be a set even if the original space is a proper class: in particular. every complete separable metric space automatically is a set.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.2178/jsl/1122038923
JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
70
3
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0022-4812
5
0.92
References 
Authors
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Laura Crosilla1173.00
Hajime Ishihara222041.93
Peter Schuster36912.42