If A is a subring of a ring B, then an interpolated ring is the union of A and {b in B : P} for some proposition P. These interpolated rings come up frequently in the construction of Brouwerian examples. We study conditions on the inclusion of A in B that guarantee, for some property of rings, that if A and B both have that property, then so does any interpolated ring. Classically, no condition is necessary because each interpolated ring is either A or B. We also would like such a condition to be necessary in the sense that if it fails, and every interpolated ring has the property, then some omniscience principle holds.
@InProceedings{richman:DagSemProc.05021.12, author = {Richman, Fred}, title = {{Enabling conditions for interpolated rings}}, booktitle = {Mathematics, Algorithms, Proofs}, pages = {1--7}, series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)}, ISSN = {1862-4405}, year = {2006}, volume = {5021}, editor = {Thierry Coquand and Henri Lombardi and Marie-Fran\c{c}oise Roy}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.05021.12}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-2792}, doi = {10.4230/DagSemProc.05021.12}, annote = {Keywords: Brouwerian example, interpolated ring, intuitionistic algebra} }
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