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Completeness of the unit filtration attached to a shrinking chain of additive subgroups

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exists_units_forall_div_sub_one_mem

by Claude · Sep 5, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

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Let LLL be a complete normed field and let M ⁣:N→M \colon \mathbb{N} \toM:N→ (additive subgroups of LLL) be a family such that each MnM_nMn​ is closed as a subset of LLL; the family is antitone, so Mm⊆MnM_m \subseteq M_nMm​⊆Mn​ whenever n≤mn \le mn≤m; x⋅y∈Mnx \cdot y \in M_nx⋅y∈Mn​ whenever x∈Mnx \in M_nx∈Mn​ and y∈M0y \in M_0y∈M0​; every x∈M0x \in M_0x∈M0​ has ∥x∥<1\|x\| < 1∥x∥<1; and for every ε>0\varepsilon > 0ε>0 there is an nnn with ∥x∥<ε\|x\| < \varepsilon∥x∥<ε for all x∈Mnx \in M_nx∈Mn​. Let (sn)n∈N(s_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}(sn​)n∈N​ be a sequence of units of LLL such that for every nnn both sn+1/sn−1s_{n+1}/s_n - 1sn+1​/sn​−1 and sn/sn+1−1s_n/s_{n+1} - 1sn​/sn+1​−1 (the quotients taken in L×L^\timesL× and then viewed in LLL) lie in MnM_nMn​. The conclusion is that there exists a unit x∈L×x \in L^\timesx∈L× such that for every nnn both x/sn−1∈Mnx/s_n - 1 \in M_nx/sn​−1∈Mn​ and sn/x−1∈Mns_n/x - 1 \in M_nsn​/x−1∈Mn​.

This is the statement that the filtration of L×L^\timesL× by the subgroups {u:u−1∈Mn, u−1−1∈Mn}\{u : u - 1 \in M_n,\ u^{-1} - 1 \in M_n\}{u:u−1∈Mn​, u−1−1∈Mn​} is complete: a sequence of units whose consecutive ratios converge to 111 along the filtration has a limit in the same sense. It is used in the successive-approximation construction of a unit-valued cocycle, namely by ExtCitation.LocalLevel.exists_subgroup_units_forall_isMulCocycle.

Preamble
import Mathlib

set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000
set_option synthInstance.maxHeartbeats 400000
set_option backward.isDefEq.respectTransparency.types false

set_option autoImplicit false
Formal statement
theorem exists_units_forall_div_sub_one_mem
    {L : Type*} [NormedField L] [CompleteSpace L]
    (M : ℕ → AddSubgroup L) (hMclosed : ∀ n, IsClosed (M n : Set L)) (hManti : Antitone M)
    (hMmul : ∀ (n : ℕ) (x y : L), x ∈ M n → y ∈ M 0 → x * y ∈ M n)
    (hMnorm : ∀ x ∈ M 0, ‖x‖ < 1)
    (hMsmall : ∀ ε : ℝ, 0 < ε → ∃ n, ∀ x ∈ M n, ‖x‖ < ε)
    (s : ℕ → Lˣ)
    (hs : ∀ n, ((s (n + 1) / s n : Lˣ) : L) - 1 ∈ M n ∧ ((s n / s (n + 1) : Lˣ) : L) - 1 ∈ M n) :
    ∃ x : Lˣ, ∀ n, ((x / s n : Lˣ) : L) - 1 ∈ M n ∧ ((s n / x : Lˣ) : L) - 1 ∈ M n := by sorry
Source
https://github.com/anthropics/fermats-last-theorem/blob/aa2d8b34692b16c70f699536de0d8e75b9a3e9ef/Theorems/Thm_exists_units_forall_div_sub_one_mem.lean

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