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Under the ultrafilter lemma, an ultrafilter algebra maps each ultrafilter to its unique limit
Statement
Assume UL/BPI. For an ultrafilter algebra with its induced topology, every ultrafilter converges to exactly one point, namely .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: UL/BPI, an ultrafilter algebra , and an ultrafilter on .
In the induced topology, the closure of is (Under the ultrafilter lemma, closure in an ultrafilter-algebra topology is the image of ultrafilters containing the set).
A filter converges to when every neighbourhood of belongs to the filter (Convergence and cluster points of a filter on a topological space).
The ultrafilter extension principle says that every filter on a set is contained in an ultrafilter on that set (The ultrafilter extension principle (UL/BPI)).
Proof
If an induced-open neighbourhood contains , the definition of induced-open gives . Thus converges to by [L2].
Let be any limit of . For each , every neighbourhood of meets , so by [L1].
On , the family has the finite-intersection property by step 1.2. Extend it by [L3] to an ultrafilter on .
The inclusions forced by step 2.1 and maximality give and . The algebra laws therefore give .
Step 1.1 supplies the limit and step 3.1 identifies every other limit with it, proving existence and uniqueness. If , no ultrafilter exists and the assertion is vacuous.
Depends on
- Under the ultrafilter lemma, closure in an ultrafilter-algebra topology is the image of ultrafilters containing the set
- Convergence and cluster points of a filter on a topological space
- The open-set family induced by an ultrafilter algebra
- Characterisation of ultrafilters: every set or its complement
- The ultrafilter endofunctor with principal unit and flattening multiplication
- The ultrafilter extension principle (UL/BPI)
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Sources
- J. Goubault-Larrecq, Algebras of filter-related monads: I. Ultrafilters and Manes' theorem, Lemmas B and C (standard reference, not scraped)