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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ii Paper 1 22F b Solution by
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For each , choose with and set . Countable subadditivity gives . For any tolerance , choose with . For all and every , , proving uniform convergence on .
If the functions are Borel measurable, itself is Borel and we can take . If “measurable” is interpreted in the completed Lebesgue sense, use regularity of Lebesgue measure to choose a Borel subset differing from by a null set; the same measure bound and uniform convergence hold. Thus the requested Borel conclusion is valid under either convention. This proves the finite-measure Egorov theorem.
For an infinite-measure counterexample take and . It converges pointwise to zero. Any subset of with complement of finite measure intersects every infinite tail , so the supremum of there is one for every . Hence finite measure is essential to the conclusion.
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