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Assuming countable choice, Lebesgue outer measure is an outer measure that restricts to elementary volume

Statement

Let n1. Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω)). Then Lebesgue outer measure λn (Lebesgue outer measure on Rn) is an outer measure on Rn (Outer measures): it vanishes at , is monotone, and is countably subadditive.

The agreement clause is a theorem of ZF and needs no choice principle: λn(A)=μ0(A) for every elementary set A (Elementary sets: the finite unions of half-open boxes in Rn), where μ0 is elementary volume. In particular λn(B)=vol(B) for every half-open box B, and λn()=0.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A natural number n1, the Axiom of Countable Choice, the premeasure μ0 on the algebra En, and its induced outer set function λn.

[L1]

λn is the outer set function induced by the premeasure μ0 on the algebra En of elementary sets (Lebesgue outer measure on Rn).

[L2]

Elementary volume μ0 is a sigma-finite premeasure on En (Elementary volume is a sigma-finite premeasure on the algebra of elementary sets).

[F1]

Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice. The outer set function induced by a premeasure is an outer measure (Assuming countable choice, the outer set function induced by a premeasure is an outer measure).

[F2]

For every AA0, the outer measure induced by a premeasure satisfies μ(A)=μ0(A) (The induced outer measure agrees with the premeasure on the source algebra).

[F3]

An outer measure on a set X is a function μ:P(X)[0,+] that vanishes at the empty set, is monotone, and is countably subadditive (Outer measures).

[F4]

The Axiom of Countable Choice says that for every family (Xn)nN of nonempty sets indexed by N there is a function f with domain N such that f(n)Xn for every nN (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω)).

Proof

technique · direct
1.1

Elementary volume is a premeasure on the algebra En of subsets of Rn, and λn is by definition the outer set function it induces, so both [F1] and [F2] apply to this pair.

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1.2

Under the Axiom of Countable Choice, an induced outer set function is an outer measure, which is the first assertion.

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1.3

The identity λn(A)=μ0(A) on the source algebra is [F2], whose statement carries no choice hypothesis, so the agreement clause holds in ZF alone; applied to a half-open box B, which is elementary, it gives λn(B)=μ0(B)=vol(B), and applied to it gives λn()=0.

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2.1

Steps 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 together are the Statement.

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