Reason: Initial publication. Proof applying the open-set claim of thm:portmanteau-metric-2026a to an open ball about the constant, then passing to the complement with the difference rule for finite measures.
Claim 2. The set {c} is a nonempty subset of X, and for every x∈X the set {d(x,a):a∈{c}} is {d(x,c)}, whose greatest lower bound is d(x,c); hence distd(x,{c})=d(x,c) in the sense of Distance from a Point to a Nonempty Subset of a Metric Space. By claim 3 of Borel Measurability and Bounded Integration on a Metric Space the map x↦d(x,c) is measurable with respect to B(X) and the Borel σ-algebraB(R) of the real line, and by claim 4 of the same lemma the map ω↦d(Yn(ω),c) is measurable with respect to Fn and B(R). The set [ε,∞) is a closed subset of R and hence a Borel set, and En,ε is its preimage under that map; therefore En,ε∈Fn.
so both are equal to 1, and claim 5 of that lemma shows that (λn(U))n∈Nconverges to 1.
For every ω∈Ωn we have d(c,Yn(ω))=d(Yn(ω),c) by the symmetry of d (condition 3 of Metric Space), and exactly one of d(Yn(ω),c)<ε and ε≤d(Yn(ω),c) holds by the totality of the order of R. Hence Yn−1(U)=Ωn∖En,ε, and so λn(U)=Pn(Ωn∖En,ε). Applying claim 3 of Basic Properties of a Measure to the finite measure Pn gives
Pn(En,ε)=Pn(Ωn)−λn(U)=1−λn(U).
Let η>0 be real. Since (λn(U)) converges to 1, there is N∈N with ∣λn(U)−1∣<η for every n≥N, and then