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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 iii Paper 31 4 i Solution by
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For a Borel probability measure on a Polish space , its support of a measure isEquivalently, for a compatible metric, every open ball about has positive measure. The complement is open: any zero-measure open neighborhood of a point is a zero-measure neighborhood of all its points. Hence the support is closed.
A Polish space has a countable base. Its support complement is therefore a countable union of zero-measure basic open sets, so . If is any closed full-measure set, a point outside has the zero-measure open neighborhood and is outside the support. Thus the support is also the smallest closed set of full measure. Countability is what justifies the full-measure assertion; an arbitrary uncountable union of null sets would not suffice.
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