TITLE: Cauchy nets in a metric space
QUESTION [17 upvotes]: Say that a net $a_i$ in a metric space is cauchy if for every $\epsilon > 0$ there exists $I$ such that for all $i, j \geq I$ one has $d(a_i,a_j) \leq \epsilon$.  If the metric space is complete, does it hold (and in either case why) that every cauchy net converges?

REPLY [4 votes]: Consider a Cauchy net:
$$\forall \lambda,\lambda'\geq\lambda_n:\quad d(x_\lambda,x_\lambda')<\frac{1}{n}$$
Extract a Cauchy sequence:
$$x_n:=x_{\lambda(n)}\quad\lambda(n):=\lambda_1\wedge\ldots\wedge\lambda_n$$
Apply completeness:
$$d(x_\lambda,x)\leq d(x_\lambda,x_{n_0})+d(x_{n_0},x)<\frac{N}{2}+\frac{N}{2}\leq\epsilon$$
where to choose the meet $n_0:=N\wedge n(N)$ with $N:=\lceil\frac{\epsilon}{2}\rceil$