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A property holding outside a set of elementary measure zero is exactly a property holding λ-almost everywhere

Statement

Let m1 and assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω)). Then:

  1. A subset of R has measure zero in the covering sense of Measure zero (a countable cover by intervals of total length below every ε) and content zero (a finite such cover) if and only if it is Lebesgue measurable with λ1-measure 0; and a subset of Rm is null in the covering sense of Measure zero and content zero in Rm by countable and finite cube covers if and only if it is Lebesgue measurable with λm-measure 0.
  2. For a property P of points of Rm, the exceptional set {xRm:P(x) fails} is null in the covering sense if and only if P holds λm-almost everywhere (Measure-null sets and almost-everywhere statements relative to a measure).

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A natural number m1, the Axiom of Countable Choice, and a property P of points of Rm with exceptional set N0.

[L3]

Assuming countable choice, L(Rm) is a sigma-algebra, λm is a complete measure on it and is the restriction of λm, and every S with λm(S)=0 is Lebesgue measurable of measure 0 (Assuming countable choice, L(Rn) is a sigma-algebra containing every elementary set and λn is a complete measure extending elementary volume).

[L4]

Assuming countable choice, λm is an outer measure on Rm, hence monotone (Assuming countable choice, Lebesgue outer measure is an outer measure that restricts to elementary volume, Outer measures).

[F1]

A property P(x) holds μ-almost everywhere if its exceptional set is contained in a measurable μ-null set: there is NA with μ(N)=0 such that P(x) holds for every xXN (Measure-null sets and almost-everywhere statements relative to a measure).

Proof

technique · direct
1.1

A set with Lebesgue outer measure 0 is Lebesgue measurable of measure 0, and conversely a Lebesgue measurable set of measure 0 has outer measure 0, since λm is the restriction of λm.

L3
2.1

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.

step 1.1L1L2
3.1

If N0 is null in the covering sense then λm(N0)=0, so N0 itself is a measurable null set containing the exceptional set and P holds λm-almost everywhere; conversely if P holds λm-almost everywhere, with N0N measurable and λm(N)=0, then monotonicity gives λm(N0)λm(N)=0 and N0 is null in the covering sense.

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