Introduction to Measure Theory, Section 1.2: Lebesgue measure #
A companion to (the introduction to) Section 1.2 of the book "An introduction to Measure Theory".
Exercise 1.2.1 (countable union)
Exercise 1.2.2
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This definition deviates from the text by working with countable families of boxes rather than boxes indexed by the natural numbers. This becomes important in dimension zero, when all boxes are non-empty.
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When d > 0, the Lebesgue outer measure can be computed using ℕ-indexed box sequences, which is equivalent to the definition using countable families. This is because we can pad any countable family with zero-volume boxes (which exist when d > 0).
In dimension 0, the Lebesgue outer measure is 1 for non-empty sets and 0 for the empty set. This is because all boxes in dimension 0 are singletons with volume 1 (empty product).
When enumerating a finset to a sequence padded with empty boxes, the infinite sum of volumes equals the finite sum
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- LebesgueMeasurable E = ∀ ε > 0, ∃ (U : Set (EuclideanSpace' d)), IsOpen U ∧ E ⊆ U ∧ Lebesgue_outer_measure (U \ E) ≤ ε