Commit 2024-03-30 22:01 f4bf34de
View on Github →feat: Infinite products (#11733)
Last year, YaelDillies made a pull request to mathlib3 that unfortunately never got merged in: https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib/pull/18405. This is the mathlib4 version of that pull request.
We define arbitrarily indexed products in a commutative monoid with a topology. This is done by "multiplicativizing" the currently existing definitions and theorems about arbitrarily indexed sums. That is, the existing code is rewritten in the multiplicative setting, and the original definitions and theorems are recovered using @[to_additive]. Please see this thread on Zulip for information on why this approach was chosen: https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/287929-mathlib4/topic/Infinite.20products
As YaelDillies wrote in the description of https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib/pull/18405, there are a few small technical issues that arise when directly "multiplicativizing" theorems in this way:
- I have renamed
cauchySeq_finset_iff_vanishingtocauchySeq_finset_iff_sum_vanishingto make the name multiplicativizable. This is slightly different from the namecauchy_seq_finset_sum_iff_vanishingthat YaelDillies used, and it is meant to parallel the existing namecauchySeq_finset_iff_tsum_vanishing. - Currently, on master, there is a theorem called
tsum_sumabout taking thetsumof asum, and a theorem calledtsum_prodabout taking atsumon a product of two index sets. I have called the multiplicative versionstprod_of_prodandtprod_prod. This is slightly different from the namestprod_prod''andtprod_prodthat YaelDillies used. eric-wieser suggested renamingtsum_prodtotsum_prod_indexto get around this issue, which I can do in a separate pull request.