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The reals are complete
Statement
Every Cauchy sequence of real numbers (Limits and Cauchy sequences of reals) converges to a real number. Together with The reals form a totally ordered field, this completes the construction: is a complete totally ordered field.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A Cauchy sequence of reals.
Rational approximation: for any real and rational there is with (The rationals embed densely in the reals).
Archimedean property: for rational there is with (The rationals are Archimedean).
Cauchy definitions in and (Cauchy sequence of rationals, Limits and Cauchy sequences of reals).
The embedding preserves and reflects order and arithmetic; triangle inequality in (The rationals embed densely in the reals, The reals form a totally ordered field, Order on the reals).
Reals are classes of rational Cauchy sequences (The real numbers).
Proof
For each pick a rational with .
is Cauchy in : given rational , pick with and with for ; then for , , and the embedding reflects order, so .
Set , the class of this rational Cauchy sequence.
: given rational , pick with and with for ; for , the difference has representative , whose absolute values are eventually below , so , and .
Every Cauchy sequence of reals converges in : the reals are complete.
Depends on
Used by
- The Cauchy-sequence reals have the least-upper-bound property Corollary
- FALSE: a convergent subsequence forces the sequence to converge False statement
- Every convergent sequence is Cauchy Lemma
- Conventions for sequences: indexing, eventually, lim, and rational ε Remark
- Two independent proofs that ℝ is Cauchy complete, and why the library records both Remark
- For pₖ ≥ 0 the product ∏ (1 + pₖ) converges iff ∑ pₖ converges, with 1 + ∑_k<n pₖ ≤ ∏_k<n(1+pₖ) ≤ 1/(1 - ∑_k<n pₖ) when ∑_k<n pₖ < 1; for 0 ≤ pₖ < 1 the product ∏ (1 - pₖ) converges iff ∑ pₖ converges and its partial products tend to 0 otherwise; and ∑ |pₖ| convergent implies ∏ (1+pₖ) convergent Theorem
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Sources
- T. Tao, Analysis I, 3rd ed., §6.4 (standard reference, not scraped)
- W. Rudin, Principles of Mathematical Analysis, 3rd ed., Ch. 3 (standard reference, not scraped)
- L. S. Krapp, Constructions of the real numbers: a set theoretical approach (Oxford, 2014) (standard reference, not scraped)