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(* Contribution to the Coq Library   V6.3 (July 1999)                    *)
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(* This contribution was updated for Coq V5.10 by the COQ workgroup.        *)
(* January 1995                                                             *)
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(*      Coq V5.8                                                            *)
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(*      Ramsey Theory                                                       *)
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(*      Marc Bezem                                                          *)
(*      Utrecht University                                                  *)
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(*      June 1993                                                           *)
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(*   For dimension one, the Infinite Ramsey Theorem states that,            *)
(*   for any subset A of the natural numbers nat, either A or nat\A         *)
(*   is infinite. This special case of the Pigeon Hole Principle            *)
(*   is classically equivalent to:                                          *)
(*   if A and B are both co-finite, then so is their intersection.          *)
(*   None of these principles is constructively valid. In [VB] the notion   *)
(*   of an almost full set is introduced, classically equivalent            *)
(*   to co-finiteness, for which closure under finite intersection can      *)
(*   be proved constructively. A is almost full if for every (strictly)     *)
(*   increasing sequence f: nat -> nat there exists an x in nat such        *)
(*   that f(x) in A. The notion of almost full and its closure under        *)
(*   finite intersection are generalized to all finite dimensions,          *)
(*   yielding constructive Ramsey Theorems. The proofs for dimension        *)
(*   two and higher essentially use Brouwer's Bar Theorem.                  *)
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(*   In the proof development below we strengthen the notion of almost full *)
(*   for dimension one in the following sense. A: nat -> Prop is called     *)
(*   Y-full if for every (strictly) increasing sequence f: nat -> nat       *)
(*   we have (A (f (Y f))). Here of course Y : (nat -> nat) -> nat.         *)
(*   Given YA-full A and YB-full B we construct X from YA and YB            *)
(*   such that the intersection of A and B is X-full.                       *)
(*   This is essentially [VB, Th. 5.4], but now it                          *)
(*   can be done without using axioms, using only inductive types.          *)
(*   The generalization to higher dimensions will be much more              *)
(*   difficult and is not pursued here.                                     *)
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(*   [VB] Wim Veldman and Marc Bezem, Ramsey's Theorem and the Pigeon Hole  *)
(*        Principle in intuitionistic mathematics, Journal of the London    *)
(*        Mathematical Society (2), Vol. 47, April 1993, pp. 193-211.       *)
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Definition increasing (f : nat -> nat) :=
forall x y : nat, x < y -> f x < f y.
unfold increasing in |- *; auto with arith.
Qed.
Hint Resolve compose_increasing.

Lemma increasingbystep :
forall f : nat -> nat, (forall n : nat, f n < f (S n)) -> increasing f.