Divisibility of Lebesgue measure Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-06
If is a Lebesgue measurable set and , some measurable subset has Lebesgue measure . The function has Lipschitz continuity with constant , starts at and ends at ; the intermediate value theorem proves the assertion. Applying the assertion successively to remaining portions of gives pairwise disjoint measurable pieces with any finite list of nonnegative measures whose sum is at most . This is a concrete consequence of non-atomic measure structure, which fails for general measures containing an atom of a measure.
Euclidean body 2026-10-03
A Euclidean body is a nonempty bounded measurable subset of of positive Lebesgue measure. Projection inequalities are unchanged by modifying a body on a set of measure zero; geometric equality statements commonly impose additional regularity.
Image-length measure of a strictly increasing continuous function Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Let be continuous, strictly increasing, and satisfy Lusin condition N. Then
defines a measure on the Lebesgue measurable sets, and . Moreover,
for .
Measurable Hall theorem Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-06
For finitely many Lebesgue measurable sets and nonnegative demands , pairwise disjoint measurable subsets with exist exactly when for every index subset . Necessity is additivity and monotonicity of Lebesgue measure. For sufficiency, partition the set union into membership cells , send flow from a source through demand vertices to cells with , then to a sink. Source capacities are , cell capacities are , and intermediate capacities are . Every cut of a flow network has capacity at least by the assumed inequalities. The max-flow min-cut theorem provides the allocations, and divisibility of Lebesgue measure turns each cell allocation into disjoint pieces. If , all can simply be empty.
Measurable set Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-06
A subset of is measurable relative to a sigma-algebra when it belongs to . A measure defined on assigns sizes to these sets. Measurability depends on the chosen sigma-algebra; for example, a Lebesgue measurable set need not be a Borel set.
First take nonempty bounded open sets . Their Minkowski sum is open and hence a Lebesgue measurable set. Apply the Prékopa–Leindler inequality to their indicator functions and the indicator function of . This gives the multiplicative form
To obtain the usual additive Brunn–Minkowski inequality, put , , and . Both normalized open sets have Lebesgue measure one. For ,
The multiplicative bound and the scaling rule for Lebesgue measure imply
Replacing by and using continuity from below extends this form of the Brunn–Minkowski inequality to all nonempty open sets, including those of infinite Lebesgue measure. This open-set form is sufficient here and avoids any measurability qualification for sums of arbitrary measurable sets.
Write and let denote Lebesgue measure. Necessity follows from measure additivity and monotonicity: the pairwise disjoint Lebesgue measurable sets give
For sufficiency, form the finite measurable partition into membership cells
These Lebesgue measurable sets are pairwise disjoint, and . Empty cells may be retained. Construct a flow network with a source, one vertex for each index , one vertex for each cell , and a sink. Give the source-to- edge capacity , the -to- edge capacity whenever , and the -to-sink edge capacity .
Consider any cut of a flow network, and let be its index vertices on the source side. If an index-to-cell edge crosses the cut of a flow network, its capacity alone is . Otherwise every cell with lies on the source side, so the cut of a flow network has capacity at least
The cut immediately after the source has capacity . The max-flow min-cut theorem, valid for finite flow networks with real capacities, therefore supplies a flow of value . Its cell allocations satisfy
It remains to convert these numbers into Lebesgue measurable sets; this uses divisibility of Lebesgue measure. Indeed, for any Lebesgue measurable set , the function satisfies , and . Thus it has Lipschitz continuity, and the intermediate value theorem supplies a measurable subset of of any prescribed measure between and . Successively apply this to the remaining portion of each , choosing disjoint pieces of measure ; choose the empty set when . Then
This proves the measurable Hall theorem. The splitting step is essential: an arbitrary measure with an atom of a measure would not support the same conclusion. Here inclusion allows equality; even if strict inclusion is required, deleting one point of each nonempty from every preserves all measures and ensures .
A set is Lebesgue measurable if it satisfies the Caratheodory criterion
for every , where is Lebesgue outer measure. Equivalently, belongs to the completion of the Borel sigma-algebra with respect to Lebesgue measure.
For every positive integer , additivity gives . Hence
Conversely, if , write . Then
so . Thus
To prove continuity, fix and put
These sets are measurable and , so at least one has positive Lebesgue measure. Part (ii) gives , and therefore also has positive measure. By the Steinhaus theorem, contains an open neighbourhood of zero. Part (i) gives
This proves continuity at zero. Finally,
as , so is continuous at every . Thus every such map is an instance of the theorem that a measurable additive function is continuous.
Yes. The regularity of Lebesgue measure says that for every Lebesgue measurable set and every , there is an open set with
Write as a countable disjoint union of intervals. Since its total measure is at most one, a finite subunion can be chosen with
Then and . Hence every Lebesgue measurable set lies in , while by definition. Therefore
Every Lebesgue measurable set differs from a Borel set by a Lebesgue-null set . The given function is a homeomorphism from onto the interval . Hence is Borel relative to and therefore Lebesgue measurable in . Moreover,
and is null by Lusin condition N. The Completeness of Lebesgue measure now shows that is measurable, so
is defined for every .
Because is injective, it maps pairwise disjoint sets to pairwise disjoint sets and commutes with arbitrary unions. The countable additivity of therefore gives
Thus is the image-length measure of a strictly increasing continuous function. If , the null-set hypothesis gives , so
The measure is sigma-finite, since
The Radon-Nikodym theorem consequently supplies a nonnegative locally integrable function such that
For , strict increase and continuity give
and hence
The analogous oriented identity holds for . By differentiation of an indefinite Lebesgue integral,
Yes, the differentiability conclusion still holds when is merely non-decreasing. In fact, the Lebesgue theorem on differentiability of monotone functions says that every monotone function is differentiable almost everywhere; neither continuity nor the null-set hypothesis is needed for that conclusion. Flat intervals mean that the preceding image-set argument no longer gives disjoint images, so its natural replacement is the Lebesgue-Stieltjes measure determined by
Let be the number of particles of gas in a bounded Lebesgue measurable set . Because Lebesgue measure is diffuse, two independent spatial Poisson point processes have no common particle almost surely. Hence the mixture count is
Writing , independence gives the probability generating function
Thus
If are pairwise disjoint, the family
is independent: counts in disjoint sets are independent within each gas, and the two gases are independent. Therefore the sums are independent. These two facts prove directly that the mixture is a Poisson point process. By the Superposition theorem for Poisson point processes, its activity is