Club sets and stationary sets #
A subset of a well-ordered type α is called a club set when it is closed in the order topology
and cofinal. If α has no maximum, then an equivalent condition is that α is closed and
unbounded; hence the name.
A stationary set is a set which intersects all club sets.
Implementation notes #
To avoid importing topology in the ordinals, we spell out the closure property using DirSupClosed.
For any type equipped with the Scott-Hausdorff topology (which includes well-orders with the order
topology), DirSupClosed s and IsClosed s are equivalent predicates.
A club set is a set that is closed under suprema and that is cofinal.
- dirSupClosed : DirSupClosed s
Club sets are closed under suprema. If
αis a well-order with the order topology, this condition is equivalent toIsClosed s. - isCofinal : IsCofinal s
Club sets are cofinal. If
αhas no maximum, this condition is equivalent to¬ BddAbove s. Seenot_bddAbove_iff_isCofinal.
Instances For
Club sets in regular cardinals correspond one to one with normal functions.
Stationary sets #
A set is called stationary when it intersects all club sets.