Bounded below

cosmos 25th September 2017 at 5:17pm

We say that a subset A0A_0 of a Partially ordered set AA is bounded below if there is an element aa of AA such that axa\leq x for every xA0x \in A_0; the element aa is called a Lower bound for A0A_0. If the set of all upper bounds for A0A_0 has a Largest element, that element is called the greatest upper bound, or the Infimum, of A0A_0. It is denoted by infA0\inf{A_0}; it may or may not belong to A0A_0. If it does, it is the smallest element of A0A_0.