The strength of compactness for countable complete linear orders

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Abstract: We investigate the statement "the order topology of every countable complete linear order is compact" in the framework of reverse mathematics, and we find that the statement's strength depends on the precise formulation of compactness. If we require that open covers must be uniformly expressible as unions of basic open sets, then the compactness of complete linear orders is equivalent to mathsfWKL0 over mathsfRCA0. If open covers need not be uniformly expressible as unions of basic open sets, then the compactness of complete linear orders is equivalent to mathsfACA0 over mathsfRCA0. This answers a question of Franc{c}ois Dorais.












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