hyperreal
An ultrafilter ℱ on a set I is called nonprincipal if no finite subsets of I are in ℱ.
Fix once and for all a nonprincipal ultrafilter ℱ on the set ℕ of natural numbers. Let ∼ be the equivalence relation
on the set ℝℕ of sequences of real numbers given by
{an}∼{bn}⇔{n∈ℕ∣an=bn}∈ℱ |
Let ℝ* be the set of equivalence classes of ℝℕ under the equivalence relation ∼. The set ℝ* is called the set of hyperreals. It is a field under coordinatewise addition
and multiplication:
{an}+{bn} | = | {an+bn} | ||
{an}⋅{bn} | = | {an⋅bn} |
The field ℝ* is an ordered field under the ordering relation
{an}≤{bn}⇔{n∈ℕ∣an≤bn}∈ℱ |
The real numbers embed into ℝ* by the map sending the real number x∈ℝ to the equivalence class of the constant sequence given by xn:= for all . In what follows, we adopt the convention of treating as a subset of under this embedding.
A hyperreal is:
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limited if for some real numbers
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positive unlimited if for all real numbers
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negative unlimited if for all real numbers
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unlimited if it is either positive unlimited or negative unlimited
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positive infinitesimal
if for all positive real numbers
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negative infinitesimal if for all negative real numbers
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infinitesimal if it is either positive infinitesimal or negative infinitesimal
For any subset of , the set is defined to be the subset of consisting of equivalence classes of sequences such that
The sets , , and are called hypernaturals, hyperintegers, and hyperrationals, respectively. An element of is also sometimes called hyperfinite.
Title | hyperreal |
Canonical name | Hyperreal |
Date of creation | 2013-03-22 12:35:45 |
Last modified on | 2013-03-22 12:35:45 |
Owner | djao (24) |
Last modified by | djao (24) |
Numerical id | 4 |
Author | djao (24) |
Entry type | Definition |
Classification | msc 26E35 |
Synonym | nonstandard real |
Synonym | non-standard real |
Related topic | Infinitesimal2 |
Defines | nonprincipal ultrafilter |
Defines | infinitesimal |
Defines | hypernatural |
Defines | hyperinteger |
Defines | hyperrational |
Defines | hyperfinite |