Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-integration-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2017/1/b/solution

A subset is a Lebesgue measurable set when it satisfies Carathéodory's criterion: for every ,
Suppose and let , allowing . The monotonicity of Lebesgue outer measure follows directly from covers: every cover of a larger set covers a smaller set. Thus , while . Consequently
The reverse inequality is countable subadditivity of Lebesgue outer measure applied to . Equality follows, even if . Therefore and every subset are Lebesgue measurable sets of measure zero. This is the completeness of Lebesgue measure, obtained without presupposing measurability of the outer-null set.

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