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MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
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CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0960129523000282
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Constructive mathematics; domain theory; continuous directed complete posets (dcpos); Scott topology; apartness; sharp elements; strongly maximal elements
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This article studies continuous directed complete posets (dcpos) and the Scott topology. Two primary innovations are introduced: a notion of intrinsic apartness and a notion of sharp elements. The first main result is that for a large class of continuous dcpos, the Bridges-Vitǎ apartness topology and the Scott topology coincide. The theory of strongly maximal elements and their connection to sharpness and the Lawson topology is also developed.
Working constructively, we study continuous directed complete posets (dcpos) and the Scott topology. Our two primary novelties are a notion of intrinsic apartness and a notion of sharp elements. Being apart is a positive formulation of being unequal, similar to how inhabitedness is a positive formulation of nonemptiness. To exemplify sharpness, we note that a lower real is sharp if and only if it is located. Our first main result is that for a large class of continuous dcpos, the Bridges-Vit ǎ apartness topology and the Scott topology coincide. Although we cannot expect a tight or cotransitive apartness on nontrivial dcpos, we prove that the intrinsic apartness is both tight and cotransitive when restricted to the sharp elements of a continuous dcpo. These include the strongly maximal elements, as studied by Smyth and Heckmann. We develop the theory of strongly maximal elements highlighting its connection to sharpness and the Lawson topology. Finally, we illustrate the intrinsic apartness, sharpness, and strong maximality by considering several natural examples of continuous dcpos: the Cantor and Baire domains, the partial Dedekind reals, the lower reals and, finally, an embedding of Cantor space into an exponential of lifted sets.
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