A B1.12
Part II, 2004
(i) State and prove the Knaster-Tarski Fixed-Point Theorem.
(ii) A subset of a poset is called an up-set if whenever satisfy and then also . Show that the set of up-sets of (ordered by inclusion) is a complete poset.
Let and be totally ordered sets, such that is isomorphic to an up-set in and is isomorphic to the complement of an up-set in . Prove that is isomorphic to . Indicate clearly where in your argument you have made use of the fact that and are total orders, rather than just partial orders.
[Recall that posets and are called isomorphic if there exists a bijection from to such that, for any , we have if and only if .]