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The Solovay model has no Hamel basis and no discontinuous additive real function
Statement
In , has no Hamel basis over , and every additive is continuous and -linear.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Universal real measurability in .
Every set of reals in the Solovay model is Lebesgue measurable: every subset of the real line occurring below is measurable in .
A Lebesgue measurable subgroup of of positive measure is all of : assuming Countable Choice, a measurable positive-measure subgroup of is all of .
is countably infinite, Measures are monotone, Finite and countable subadditivity of measures, A box in with parameters is Lebesgue measurable of measure , whichever of its faces are included, and Lebesgue outer measure, Lebesgue measurability and Lebesgue measure are unchanged by translation: assuming Countable Choice, a countable union of measurable null sets is null, subsets of null sets are null, translates preserve measurability and measure, and .
If a Lebesgue measurable subset of has positive measure, its difference set contains an open ball about the origin and Six regularity conditions each force an additive to be : continuity at a single point, monotonicity on a nondegenerate interval, boundedness above on one, boundedness below on one, constancy of sign on one, and a graph that is not dense in : assuming Countable Choice, a positive-measure bounded-value set makes an additive map bounded near zero and therefore linear.
The Solovay inner model satisfies Dependent Choice and AC implies DC implies countable choice: satisfies Dependent Choice, and ZF proves that Dependent Choice implies Countable Choice.
Proof
Suppose is a Hamel basis. It is nonempty because it spans ; choose one (one existential choice, not AC). Define as the unique rational coefficient of in the finite expansion of . Then is additive, and F1 makes a measurable proper subgroup. Moreover, . By F6, Countable Choice holds in . If , F3 gives ; if , translation invariance in F4 makes every measurable and null, and countable subadditivity makes their explicitly rational-indexed union null. Monotonicity then gives , contradicting the value from F4.
Let be additive and put . F1 makes these sets measurable, and they cover . By F6, Countable Choice holds in . If each were null, F4 would make their explicitly indexed union null, contrary to ; hence some has positive measure. Steinhaus gives an interval about zero in , where additivity bounds by . F5 then yields continuity and for every real . The zero map and cause no exception.
Step 1.1 excludes a basis, and step 1.2 excludes every discontinuous additive solution, without invoking an AC basis-existence theorem.
Depends on
- Every set of reals in the Solovay model is Lebesgue measurable
- The Solovay inner model satisfies Dependent Choice
- AC implies DC implies countable choice
- Basis of a vector space: a linearly independent spanning subset; and ordered basis: an injective finite list whose image is a basis
- Linear combination of a finite list, and the span $\operatorname{span}(S)$ as the smallest linear subspace containing $S$
- A Lebesgue measurable subgroup of $(\mathbb{R}^n,+)$ of positive measure is all of $\mathbb{R}^n$
- Measures are monotone
- Finite and countable subadditivity of measures
- 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
- Lebesgue outer measure, Lebesgue measurability and Lebesgue measure are unchanged by translation
- $\mathbb{Q}$ is countably infinite
- If a Lebesgue measurable subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ has positive measure, its difference set contains an open ball about the origin
- Six regularity conditions each force an additive $f : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ to be $x \mapsto f(1)x$: continuity at a single point, monotonicity on a nondegenerate interval, boundedness above on one, boundedness below on one, constancy of sign on one, and a graph that is not dense in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$
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Sources
- Solovay, A model of set-theory in which every set of reals is Lebesgue measurable (standard reference, not scraped)