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Fair-coin measure on binary sequences
Statement
Assume countable choice. There is a unique Borel probability on binary sequence space such that a cylinder prescribing k distinct coordinates has mass . Its completion is a complete probability measure on the completion of the Borel sigma-algebra.
Facts & Assumptions
The cylinder-algebra content is a finite premeasure. Fair-coin cylinder content is a premeasure.
Under countable choice the premeasure extends to its generated sigma-algebra. Assuming countable choice, a premeasure extends through its induced outer measure.
A finite premeasure extension is unique. A finite premeasure has at most one extension to its generated sigma-algebra.
Under countable choice the Borel probability has a complete extension on its completion domain. Assuming countable choice, every measure space has a unique complete extension to its completion.
Proof
Given: Assume countable choice. There is a unique Borel probability on binary sequence space such that a cylinder prescribing k distinct coordinates has mass . Its completion is a complete probability measure on the completion of the Borel sigma-algebra.
The prefix cylinders form a countable base: length m has exactly possible prefixes, enumerated by the binary integers from 0 to , and the pairs of length and index admit a diagonal enumeration. Every cylinder is open, and every open set is the union of the subfamily of prefix cylinders contained in it. It follows that the sigma-algebra generated by the cylinder algebra is exactly the metric Borel sigma-algebra.
Apply the extension theorem to the premeasure p_0. It gives a Borel measure p agreeing with every cylinder mass and with . Any other measure with these cylinder masses agrees on finite disjoint unions by finite additivity, hence on the entire algebra; finite-premeasure uniqueness makes it equal to p.
The completion theorem gives a complete probability extending p, since the whole-space mass remains one. Countable choice is used by the cited extension and completion constructions; the preceding finite-algebra and compactness arguments themselves were choice-free. This constructs this particular binary measure, not a general infinite product measure.
Depends on
- Fair-coin cylinder content is a premeasure
- Assuming countable choice, a premeasure extends through its induced outer measure
- A finite premeasure has at most one extension to its generated sigma-algebra
- Assuming countable choice, every measure space has a unique complete extension to its completion
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
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Sources
- E–W Examples 2.8–2.9 with local Caratheodory route (standard reference, not scraped)