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A Lebesgue measurable subset of that is invariant under changing finitely many binary digits has measure or
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice. Let be Lebesgue measurable, and suppose that whenever two points of have binary expansions that differ at only finitely many indices, either both lie in or both lie outside . Then is either or .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The Axiom of Countable Choice and a Lebesgue measurable set invariant under finite changes of binary digits.
Assuming countable choice, Lebesgue outer measure, Lebesgue measurability and Lebesgue measure are unchanged by translation (Lebesgue outer measure, Lebesgue measurability and Lebesgue measure are unchanged by translation).
Assuming countable choice, every interval with any endpoint convention is Lebesgue measurable with its usual length (A box in with parameters is Lebesgue measurable of measure , whichever of its faces are included).
Assuming countable choice, a measurable subset of admits closed inner approximation and open outer approximation (Assuming countable choice, four equivalent descriptions of a Lebesgue measurable subset of , clauses 1 and 3); a closed subset of the bounded set is compact by A subset of is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded.
Every at most countable subset of has measure zero (Every at most countable subset of has measure zero).
is countably infinite ( is countably infinite).
A subset of is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded (A subset of is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded, Open cover, subcover, compact subset of (every open cover has a finite subcover), and sequentially compact subset).
Proof
Let and let be the set of dyadic rationals in , that is the numbers with and . The set is at most countable, hence null by [L4]. For fixed and , write , and for replace the right endpoint by so that the family partitions .
Suppose, for contradiction, that . Choose a real with . By [L3] choose a compact set with and an open set with .
Fix and . Away from the dyadics, translating onto changes only the first binary digits, so the invariance hypothesis and [L1] give . Summing over the partition from step 1.1 and using [L2] gives for every , and therefore for every union of generation- dyadic intervals one has .
For each , openness of gives a real with . The smaller interval still contains , so compactness of gives finitely many points such that the intervals , where , cover . Let , choose with , and let be the union of the generation- dyadic intervals meeting . Then . To prove , let be one of those dyadic intervals and choose . Pick with . For any one has , because has length and . Hence . So every such dyadic interval lies in , and therefore .
Step 2.1 applied to the set gives . Since , steps 1.2 and 2.2 imply contradicting the choice of . Therefore cannot lie strictly between and , and .
Depends on
- Lebesgue outer measure, Lebesgue measurability and Lebesgue measure are unchanged by translation
- A box in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with parameters $a_i\le b_i$ is Lebesgue measurable of measure $\prod_{i<n}(b_i-a_i)$, whichever of its faces are included
- Assuming countable choice, four equivalent descriptions of a Lebesgue measurable subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$
- Every at most countable subset of $\mathbb{R}$ has measure zero
- $\mathbb{Q}$ is countably infinite
- A subset of $\mathbb{R}$ is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded
- Open cover, subcover, compact subset of $\mathbb{R}$ (every open cover has a finite subcover), and sequentially compact subset
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
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Sources
- S. Sierpiński, Sur un problème concernant les ensembles mesurables superficiellement, Fund. Math. 1 (1920) (standard reference, not scraped)
- John K. Hunter, Measure Theory (UC Davis lecture notes), Chapter 2 (standard reference, not scraped)