Archimedean groups #
This file proves a few facts about ordered groups which satisfy the Archimedean
property, that is:
class Archimedean (α) [OrderedAddCommMonoid α] : Prop :=
(arch : ∀ (x : α) {y}, 0 < y → ∃ n : ℕ, x ≤ n • y)
They are placed here in a separate file (rather than incorporated as a continuation of
Algebra.Order.Archimedean
) because they rely on some imports from GroupTheory
-- bundled
subgroups in particular.
The main result is AddSubgroup.cyclic_of_min
: a subgroup of a decidable archimedean abelian
group is cyclic, if its set of positive elements has a minimal element.
This result is used in this file to deduce Int.subgroup_cyclic
, proving that every subgroup of ℤ
is cyclic. (There are several other methods one could use to prove this fact, including more purely
algebraic methods, but none seem to exist in mathlib as of writing. The closest is
Subgroup.is_cyclic
, but that has not been transferred to AddSubgroup
.)
The result is also used in Topology.Instances.Real
as an ingredient in the classification of
subgroups of ℝ
.
Given a subgroup H
of a decidable linearly ordered archimedean abelian group G
, if there
exists a minimal element a
of H ∩ G_{>0}
then H
is generated by a
.
If a nontrivial additive subgroup of a linear ordered additive commutative group is disjoint
with the interval Set.Ioo 0 a
for some positive a
, then the set of positive elements of this
group admits the least element.
If an additive subgroup of a linear ordered additive commutative group is disjoint with the
interval Set.Ioo 0 a
for some positive a
, then this is a cyclic subgroup.
Every subgroup of ℤ
is cyclic.