Matching minimal covering nets of a compact group

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Two minimal left covering nets for the same identity neighbourhood can be matched bijectively so that paired translates intersect. Join to when . For , its neighbours cover every point covered by , so still covers the group. Minimality forces . Hall's marriage theorem supplies the matching, and an intersection gives . Averaging a continuous function over matched nets therefore gives values differing by at most its uniform oscillation on right displacements in . This is the finite combinatorial step in constructing Haar measure on a compact group.

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