Locatedness and overt sublocales

Locatedness is one of the fundamental notions in constructive mathematics. The existence of a positivity predicate on a locale, i.e. the locale being overt, or open, has proved to be fundamental in constructive locale theory. We show that the two notions are intimately connected. Bishop defines a metric space to be compact if it is complete and totally bounded. A subset of a totally bounded set is again totally bounded iff it is located. So a closed subset of a Bishop compact set is Bishop compact iff it is located. We translate this result to formal topology. `Bishop compact' is translated as compact and overt. We propose a definition of located predicate on subspaces in formal topology. We call a sublocale located if it can be presented by a formal topology with a located predicate. We prove that a closed sublocale of a compact regular locale has a located predicate iff it is overt. Moreover, a Bishop-closed subset of a complete metric space is Bishop compact -- that is, totally...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: APAL
• Authors: Bas Spitters
• Keywords: APAL 2010, Bishop Compact, LOCALE, Totally Bounded