Paper 4, Section II, I
Explain what is meant by a chain-complete poset. State the Bourbaki-Witt fixedpoint theorem.
We call a poset Bourbakian if every order-preserving map has a least fixed point . Suppose is Bourbakian, and let be order-preserving maps with for all ; show that . [Hint: Consider the function defined by if otherwise.]
Suppose is Bourbakian and is an order-preserving map from an ordinal to . Show that there is an order-preserving map whose fixed points are exactly the upper bounds of the set , and deduce that this set has a least upper bound.
Let be a chain with no greatest member. Using the Axiom of Choice and Hartogs' Lemma, show that there is an order-preserving map , for some ordinal , whose image has no upper bound in . Deduce that any Bourbakian poset is chain-complete.