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A property holding outside a set of elementary measure zero is exactly a property holding -almost everywhere
Statement
Let and assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()). Then:
- A subset of has measure zero in the covering sense of Measure zero (a countable cover by intervals of total length below every ) and content zero (a finite such cover) if and only if it is Lebesgue measurable with -measure ; and a subset of is null in the covering sense of Measure zero and content zero in by countable and finite cube covers if and only if it is Lebesgue measurable with -measure .
- For a property of points of , the exceptional set is null in the covering sense if and only if holds -almost everywhere (Measure-null sets and almost-everywhere statements relative to a measure).
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A natural number , the Axiom of Countable Choice, and a property of points of with exceptional set .
Assuming countable choice, if and only if has measure zero in the covering sense (A subset of has Lebesgue outer measure zero if and only if it has measure zero in the sense of countable closed-interval covers, Measure zero (a countable cover by intervals of total length below every ) and content zero (a finite such cover)).
Assuming countable choice, if and only if is null in the covering sense (A subset of has Lebesgue outer measure zero if and only if it is null in the sense of countable closed-cube covers, Measure zero and content zero in by countable and finite cube covers).
Assuming countable choice, is a sigma-algebra, is a complete measure on it and is the restriction of , and every with is Lebesgue measurable of measure (Assuming countable choice, is a sigma-algebra containing every elementary set and is a complete measure extending elementary volume).
Assuming countable choice, is an outer measure on , hence monotone (Assuming countable choice, Lebesgue outer measure is an outer measure that restricts to elementary volume, Outer measures).
A property holds -almost everywhere if its exceptional set is contained in a measurable -null set: there is with such that holds for every (Measure-null sets and almost-everywhere statements relative to a measure).
Proof
A set with Lebesgue outer measure is Lebesgue measurable of measure , and conversely a Lebesgue measurable set of measure has outer measure , since is the restriction of .
Combining step 1.1 with the two agreement theorems gives claim 1 in both dimensions: covering nullity and Lebesgue nullity name the same class of sets.
If is null in the covering sense then , so itself is a measurable null set containing the exceptional set and holds -almost everywhere; conversely if holds -almost everywhere, with measurable and , then monotonicity gives and is null in the covering sense.
Depends on
- A subset of $\mathbb{R}$ has Lebesgue outer measure zero if and only if it has measure zero in the sense of countable closed-interval covers
- A subset of $\mathbb{R}^m$ has Lebesgue outer measure zero if and only if it is null in the sense of countable closed-cube covers
- Measure-null sets and almost-everywhere statements relative to a measure
- Assuming countable choice, $\mathcal{L}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ is a sigma-algebra containing every elementary set and $\lambda_n$ is a complete measure extending elementary volume
- Measure zero (a countable cover by intervals of total length below every $\varepsilon$) and content zero (a finite such cover)
- Measure zero and content zero in $\mathbb{R}^m$ by countable and finite cube covers
- Assuming countable choice, Lebesgue outer measure is an outer measure that restricts to elementary volume
- Outer measures
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
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Sources
- John K. Hunter, Measure Theory (UC Davis lecture notes), Chapter 2 (standard reference, not scraped)
- T. Tao, An Introduction to Measure Theory (GSM 126), Section 1.2 (standard reference, not scraped)