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FALSE: agreement on an arbitrary generating family determines a measure
Statement
False claim. If two probability measures agree on any family that generates the sigma-algebra, then they agree everywhere. The valid theorem Measures agreeing on a generating pi-system are equal under an increasing finite-measure exhaustion from that pi-system requires the generating family to be a pi-system.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The set and the family of its north row, south row, west column, and east column.
A sigma-algebra generated by is the smallest sigma-algebra containing (The sigma-algebra generated by a family of sets).
A probability measure is a measure of total mass (Probability measures and probability spaces).
A pi-system is nonempty and closed under binary intersections (Pi-systems), and agreement on a generating pi-system with the stated finite exhaustion determines a measure (Measures agreeing on a generating pi-system are equal under an increasing finite-measure exhaustion from that pi-system).
Refutation
Define by masses at and at the other points, and define by masses at and at the other points. Finite summation over subsets makes both probability measures on .
Intersections of a row and a column give every singleton, so ; but those singleton intersections are not themselves in , so is not a pi-system.
Each row and each column contains one point of mass for each measure, so and agree on every member of .
The measures differ, for example while . Together with steps 2.1 and 1.2 this refutes the claim and identifies the missing intersection-closure hypothesis.
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Sources
- D. Pollard, A User's Guide to Measure Theoretic Probability, §10, Example 42 (standard reference, not scraped)