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FALSE: the Vitali covering theorem holds for arbitrary covers
Statement
Every interval cover of a set of finite outer measure has a countable disjoint subfamily that covers the set up to a null remainder.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The statement above.
We use a cover that is not fine.
Refutation
Consider the cover of by all intervals and with . It covers every point of , but it is not fine: for an interior point , every interval in the cover that contains has length at least .
Any two left intervals intersect, and any two right intervals intersect, so a disjoint subfamily contains at most one interval of each type. If it contains only one interval, it obviously misses points of . If it contains one left interval and one right interval , disjointness forces , so the open gap is uncovered. Thus no disjoint subfamily covers up to a null remainder, and the statement is false.
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Sources
- Brian S. Thomson, Vitali Coverings and Lebesgue's Differentiation Theorem (standard reference, not scraped)