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Past exam of the integration course of the University of Oxford 2017 1 b Solution by
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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 . ConsequentlyThe 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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