So let $(M,\le_M)$ be a totally ordered set.
Can we define $+$ and $.$ to make $M$ isomorphic to $(\mathbb{R},+,.,\le)$? I mean the well known axioms.
To let this possible:
- $M$ is not bounded above and not bounded below.
- $|M|$ and $|\mathbb{R}|$ should be equal. (So $M=\mathbb{Q}$ or $M=\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{R})$ are not ok.)
- $\le_M$ has to be complete
- And for $x,y \in M$ with $x<_My$ there should be a $z \in M$ with $x<_M z <_M y$ . ($<_M$ is defined as usual.)
Are these properties sufficient?
- If so: how can we define $+_M$ and $._M$ on $M$ to get the isomorphism to $(\mathbb{R},+,.,\le)$? (Of course $._M$ and $+_M$ should be compatible with $\le_M$.)
- If not: which other properties are needed too?
Your properties are not sufficient: Let $M=[0,1]\times\Bbb R$ with lexicographic order. Then 1.-4. are satisfied, but $M$ does not have a countable dense subset because any countable subset will leave out at least some $\{a\}\times\Bbb R$. Hence $M$ is not order-isomorphic to $\Bbb R$ (which of course has the countable dense subset $\Bbb Q$).
In fact this is the only addionally needed property, i.e., every nonempty, separable, complete, dense, endless total order is isomorphic to $(\Bbb R,\le)$ (and once we have an order-isomorphism, we can transfer the field operations fom $\Bbb R$ to$M$ via that isomorphism). Note that we can drop the cardinality condition.