/- Copyright (c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Released under Apache 2.0 license as described in the file LICENSE. Module: data.nat.choose Authors: Leonardo de Moura Choice function for decidable predicates on natural numbers. This module provides the following two declarations: choose {p : nat → Prop} [d : decidable_pred p] : (∃ x, p x) → nat choose_spec {p : nat → Prop} [d : decidable_pred p] (ex : ∃ x, p x) : p (choose ex) -/ import data.subtype data.nat.basic data.nat.order open nat subtype decidable well_founded namespace nat section find_x parameter {p : nat → Prop} private definition lbp (x : nat) : Prop := ∀ y, y < x → ¬ p y private lemma lbp_zero : lbp 0 := λ y h, absurd h (not_lt_zero y) private lemma lbp_succ {x : nat} : lbp x → ¬ p x → lbp (succ x) := λ lx npx y yltsx, or.elim (eq_or_lt_of_le yltsx) (λ yeqx, by rewrite [yeqx]; exact npx) (λ yltx, lx y yltx) private definition gtb (a b : nat) : Prop := a > b ∧ lbp a local infix `≺`:50 := gtb private definition acc_of_px {x : nat} : p x → acc gtb x := assume h, acc.intro x (λ (y : nat) (l : y ≺ x), have h₁ : y > x, from and.elim_left l, have h₂ : ∀ a, a < y → ¬ p a, from and.elim_right l, absurd h (h₂ x h₁)) private definition acc_of_acc_succ {x : nat} : acc gtb (succ x) → acc gtb x := assume h, acc.intro x (λ (y : nat) (l : y ≺ x), have ygtx : x < y, from and.elim_left l, by_cases (λ yeqx : y = succ x, by rewrite [yeqx]; exact h) (λ ynex : y ≠ succ x, have ygtsx : succ x < y, from lt_of_le_and_ne (succ_lt_succ ygtx) (ne.symm ynex), acc.inv h (and.intro ygtsx (and.elim_right l)))) private definition acc_of_px_of_gt {x y : nat} : p x → y > x → acc gtb y := assume px ygtx, acc.intro y (λ (z : nat) (l : z ≺ y), have zgty : z > y, from and.elim_left l, have h : ∀ a, a < z → ¬ p a, from and.elim_right l, absurd px (h x (lt.trans ygtx zgty))) private definition acc_of_acc_of_lt : ∀ {x y : nat}, acc gtb x → y < x → acc gtb y | 0 y a0 ylt0 := absurd ylt0 !not_lt_zero | (succ x) y asx yltsx := assert ax : acc gtb x, from acc_of_acc_succ asx, by_cases (λ yeqx : y = x, by rewrite [yeqx]; exact ax) (λ ynex : y ≠ x, acc_of_acc_of_lt ax (lt_of_le_and_ne yltsx ynex)) parameter (ex : ∃ a, p a) parameter [dp : decidable_pred p] include dp private definition acc_of_ex (x : nat) : acc gtb x := obtain (w : nat) (pw : p w), from ex, lt.by_cases (λ xltw : x < w, acc_of_acc_of_lt (acc_of_px pw) xltw) (λ xeqw : x = w, by rewrite [xeqw]; exact (acc_of_px pw)) (λ xgtw : x > w, acc_of_px_of_gt pw xgtw) private definition wf_gtb : well_founded gtb := well_founded.intro acc_of_ex private definition find.F (x : nat) : (Π x₁, x₁ ≺ x → lbp x₁ → {a : nat | p a}) → lbp x → {a : nat | p a} := match x with | 0 := λ f l0, by_cases (λ p0 : p 0, tag 0 p0) (λ np0 : ¬ p 0, have l₁ : lbp 1, from lbp_succ l0 np0, have g : 1 ≺ 0, from and.intro (lt.base 0) l₁, f 1 g l₁) | (succ n) := λ f lsn, by_cases (λ psn : p (succ n), tag (succ n) psn) (λ npsn : ¬ p (succ n), have lss : lbp (succ (succ n)), from lbp_succ lsn npsn, have g : succ (succ n) ≺ succ n, from and.intro (lt.base (succ n)) lss, f (succ (succ n)) g lss) end private definition find_x : {x : nat | p x} := @fix _ _ _ wf_gtb find.F 0 lbp_zero end find_x protected definition choose {p : nat → Prop} [d : decidable_pred p] : (∃ x, p x) → nat := assume h, elt_of (find_x h) protected theorem choose_spec {p : nat → Prop} [d : decidable_pred p] (ex : ∃ x, p x) : p (choose ex) := has_property (find_x ex) end nat