Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 3 26J a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
A subset of is a Borel set when it belongs to the Borel sigma-algebra, the smallest sigma-algebra containing every open set of .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 4 26J c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Take the unit circle with its Borel sigma-algebra and normalized Lebesgue measure, and letThis is the doubling map. Its two inverse branches halve length, so Lebesgue invariance of the doubling map gives . Moreoverfor every point of the circle.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2020 ii Paper 3 26K c ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
The event is . Since has affine branches of slope magnitude , this preimage is, up to endpoints, a disjoint union of intervals of length and has measure .
More generally, for every binary word , its itinerary cylinderis, up to finitely many endpoints, one monotonicity interval of and has measure . Thereforeso the are independent and identically distributed random variables, each with the Bernoulli distribution of parameter .
The finite itinerary cylinders have diameters at most . Their endpoints form a dense set, so their unions generate the Borel sigma-algebra after completion by null sets. Thusin the standard probability-space convention that σ-algebras are identified modulo null sets.
There is a small literal endpoint defect in the uncompleted formulation of the question: , , and all have the all-zero itinerary, so cannot separate these Borel singletons. Consequently the displayed equality is false as an equality of raw Borel σ-algebras with the stated open interval, but it is true after completion and modulo null sets, which is the version used in the ergodicity argument.