Zulip Chat Archive

Stream: Analysis I

Topic: Alternative proof for 5.3 `eq_lim`


Rado Kirov (Sep 03 2025 at 05:16):

There is a comment in the proof of eq_lim that is perhaps too awkward as written - https://github.com/teorth/analysis/blob/main/analysis/Analysis/Section_5_3.lean#L103-L110

I wrote an alternative proof here - https://github.com/rkirov/analysis/blob/main/analysis/Analysis/Section_5_3.lean#L131-L147 stumbling on Quot.exists_rep and Quotient.sound (not sure what's the difference between Quot and Quotient namespaces). But doesn't really seem much simpler, just a bit different, so sharing it here.

Terence Tao (Sep 03 2025 at 18:21):

Ah, that comment referred to a much older proof that involved a weird convert that I subsequently found a way to avoid. I have now removed that comment to avoid confusion.

Quotient is a version of Quot that is optimized for quotienting out by equivalence relations rather than arbitrary relations. I think using the former cleans up the code slightly, but the differences are minor.

Rado Kirov (Sep 03 2025 at 19:54):

Ah that makes sense, thanks. Didn’t even know one can quotient by arbitrary relations.

Aaron Liu (Sep 03 2025 at 19:56):

it's equivalent to quotienting by the equivalence relation generated by it (docs#Quot.eq)


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