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Every uniformly continuous map into a complete Hausdorff uniform space extends uniquely across the Hausdorff completion; consequently completions are unique up to a unique uniform isomorphism
Statement
For a Hausdorff completion and a uniformly continuous into a complete separated uniform space , there is a unique uniformly continuous with . Consequently Hausdorff completions are unique up to a unique uniform isomorphism commuting with their canonical maps.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A Hausdorff completion and a uniformly continuous with complete and separated.
The minimal-Cauchy-filter construction gives a Hausdorff completion (Every uniform space has a Hausdorff completion with dense canonical image, and the canonical map is a uniform embedding exactly when the original uniformity is separated), and every Cauchy filter has a canonical associated minimal Cauchy filter (Every Cauchy filter canonically determines a unique minimal Cauchy filter coarser than it).
Uniform continuity, uniform isomorphism, completeness, and separatedness have their stated meanings (Uniformly continuous map between uniform spaces, Uniform embedding and uniform isomorphism, Complete uniform space: every Cauchy filter converges, Separated uniformity: the intersection of all entourages is the diagonal).
The basic entourages of declare two minimal Cauchy filters close when they have cross-close members (The standard entourages on minimal Cauchy filters form a separated uniformity), and symmetric entourages with prescribed finite-composite control exist (Every uniformity has a base of symmetric entourages).
Uniformly continuous maps are continuous, and two continuous maps into a Hausdorff space that agree on a dense subset agree everywhere (Every uniformly continuous map is continuous for the induced topologies, Two continuous maps into a Hausdorff space that agree on a dense subset are equal).
A Hausdorff completion has dense image and its source uniformity is exactly the pullback of the target uniformity (A Hausdorff completion of a uniform space and its canonical dense map).
Proof
First use the canonical completion . For a minimal Cauchy filter , its image filter is Cauchy: for a target entourage , uniform continuity supplies a source entourage whose -related pairs have -related images, and an -small member of has -small image. Completeness gives a limit, which is unique by separatedness. Define to be that limit.
For , the image under of the minimal point filter converges to : for a neighbourhood ball , uniform continuity supplies a source ball at whose image lies in it. Therefore .
The map is uniformly continuous. Given a target entourage , choose a symmetric with , and a source entourage whose -related pairs have -related images. If , take witnesses and with . Since the image filters converge to and , respectively, their members and meet the corresponding -balls. Thus the two limits are related by .
Any two uniformly continuous extensions across agree on the dense set , hence agree everywhere by [L4]. Thus the canonical completion has the asserted extension property.
Now let be an arbitrary Hausdorff completion. Step 3.1 applied to gives a uniformly continuous with . For , let be the filter on generated by the sets where ranges over symmetric entourages of . Density makes these sets nonempty; intersections are refined by intersecting entourages. The pullback condition in [A1], together with a symmetric square root in , shows that is Cauchy. Define .
The same pullback calculation gives . It also proves that is uniformly continuous: for a basic of , choose a symmetric source entourage with , then a symmetric target entourage whose pullback lies in and a symmetric with . If , then is -small across the two filters; enlarging these sets by gives members of their associated minimal filters whose cross product lies in . Hence .
The maps and agree with the respective identity maps on the dense images of . By [L4] they are the identity maps. Thus and are inverse uniform isomorphisms, uniquely so because any competing map agrees with on the dense image.
For the original map , the composite is uniformly continuous and satisfies . Uniqueness follows from density and [L4]. Consequently every Hausdorff completion has the extension property, and step 6.1 proves uniqueness of completions up to the unique stated uniform isomorphism.
Depends on
- Every uniform space has a Hausdorff completion with dense canonical image, and the canonical map is a uniform embedding exactly when the original uniformity is separated
- Uniformly continuous map between uniform spaces
- Uniform embedding and uniform isomorphism
- Complete uniform space: every Cauchy filter converges
- Separated uniformity: the intersection of all entourages is the diagonal
- A Hausdorff completion of a uniform space and its canonical dense map
- Every Cauchy filter canonically determines a unique minimal Cauchy filter coarser than it
- The standard entourages on minimal Cauchy filters form a separated uniformity
- Every uniformity has a base of symmetric entourages
- Every uniformly continuous map is continuous for the induced topologies
- Two continuous maps into a Hausdorff space that agree on a dense subset are equal
Used by
- Under dependent choice the Samuel completion of a separated totally bounded space is its uniform completion; under the ultrafilter lemma it is compact Corollary
- Under dependent choice and the ultrafilter lemma, uniformly continuous maps to compact Hausdorff spaces extend uniquely over the Samuel compactification Theorem
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Sources
- J. Wodzicki, Uniform Structure (standard reference, not scraped)
- Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Uniform space (standard reference, not scraped)