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Proof of Near a Density Point Every Direction Meets the Set Closely

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If no point of GG lay within δwx\delta\lVert w-x\rVert of ww, the ball around ww of that radius would be a fixed proportion of the ball around xx through ww that is disjoint from GG, contradicting the density of GG at xx for a threshold chosen just below one.

Proof

We use the notation of the statement. By The Lebesgue Measure of a Closed Ball in Rn\mathbb{R}^n §borel every closed ball is a Borel set of finite measure, and by The Lebesgue Measure of a Closed Ball in Rn\mathbb{R}^n §value its measure is κn\kappa_{n} times the nn-th power of its radius, where 0<κn0<\kappa_{n} by The Lebesgue Measure of a Closed Ball in Rn\mathbb{R}^n §constant.

Since 0<δ0<\delta, the numbers δn\delta^{n} and (1+δ)n(1+\delta)^{n} are positive; put

γ=δn(1+δ)n,α=112γ.\gamma=\frac{\delta^{n}}{(1+\delta)^{n}},\qquad \alpha=1-\tfrac{1}{2}\gamma .

Then 0<γ0<\gamma and α<1\alpha<1. Because xx is a density point of GG, Density Point of an Arbitrary Subset of Rn\mathbb{R}^n §density-point provides ρ0R\rho_{0}\in\mathbb{R} with 0<ρ00<\rho_{0} such that

αλn(Bˉ(x,R))λn(GBˉ(x,R))for every RR with 0<R<ρ0.\alpha\,\lambda_{n}\bigl(\bar{B}(x,R)\bigr)\le\lambda_{n}^{\ast}\bigl(G\cap\bar{B}(x,R)\bigr)\qquad\text{for every }R\in\mathbb{R}\text{ with }0<R<\rho_{0}.

Put ρ=ρ0/(1+δ)\rho=\rho_{0}/(1+\delta), a positive real number.

Let wRnw\in\mathbb{R}^{n} with 0<t<ρ0<t<\rho, where t=wxt=\lVert w-x\rVert, and suppose for contradiction that no gGg\in G satisfies gwδt\lVert g-w\rVert\le\delta t. Since dE(g,w)=gwd_{E}(g,w)=\lVert g-w\rVert by claim 2 of Elementary Properties of the Euclidean Norm on Rn\mathbb{R}^n, this says exactly that

GBˉ(w,δt)=.G\cap\bar{B}(w,\delta t)=\varnothing .

Put R=(1+δ)tR=(1+\delta)t; then 0<R<(1+δ)ρ=ρ00<R<(1+\delta)\rho=\rho_{0}.

If zBˉ(w,δt)z\in\bar{B}(w,\delta t) then, by claim 2 and claim 6 of Elementary Properties of the Euclidean Norm on Rn\mathbb{R}^n,

zxzw+wxδt+t=R,\lVert z-x\rVert\le\lVert z-w\rVert+\lVert w-x\rVert\le\delta t+t=R,

so Bˉ(w,δt)Bˉ(x,R)\bar{B}(w,\delta t)\subseteq\bar{B}(x,R). Combining this with GBˉ(w,δt)=G\cap\bar{B}(w,\delta t)=\varnothing gives

GBˉ(x,R)Bˉ(x,R)Bˉ(w,δt).G\cap\bar{B}(x,R)\subseteq\bar{B}(x,R)\setminus\bar{B}(w,\delta t).

Both balls are Borel sets of finite measure, so claim 3 of Basic Properties of a Measure applies to the right-hand side, and claims 2 and 1 of Elementary Properties of Lebesgue Outer Measure on Rn\mathbb{R}^n give

λn(GBˉ(x,R))λn(Bˉ(x,R))λn(Bˉ(w,δt))=κnRnκnδntn.\lambda_{n}^{\ast}\bigl(G\cap\bar{B}(x,R)\bigr)\le\lambda_{n}\bigl(\bar{B}(x,R)\bigr)-\lambda_{n}\bigl(\bar{B}(w,\delta t)\bigr)=\kappa_{n}R^{n}-\kappa_{n}\delta^{n}t^{n}.

Together with the density inequality at radius RR and λn(Bˉ(x,R))=κnRn\lambda_{n}(\bar{B}(x,R))=\kappa_{n}R^{n} this yields

ακnRnκnRnκnδntn,that isκnδntn(1α)κnRn.\alpha\,\kappa_{n}R^{n}\le\kappa_{n}R^{n}-\kappa_{n}\delta^{n}t^{n},\qquad\text{that is}\qquad \kappa_{n}\delta^{n}t^{n}\le(1-\alpha)\,\kappa_{n}R^{n}.

Now Rn=(1+δ)ntnR^{n}=(1+\delta)^{n}t^{n} and 1α=12γ1-\alpha=\tfrac{1}{2}\gamma, so dividing by the positive number κntn\kappa_{n}t^{n} gives

δn12γ(1+δ)n=12δn(1+δ)n(1+δ)n=12δn,\delta^{n}\le\tfrac{1}{2}\gamma\,(1+\delta)^{n}=\tfrac{1}{2}\,\frac{\delta^{n}}{(1+\delta)^{n}}\,(1+\delta)^{n}=\tfrac{1}{2}\delta^{n},

which is impossible because 0<δn0<\delta^{n}.

Hence for every ww with 0<wx<ρ0<\lVert w-x\rVert<\rho there is gGg\in G with gwδwx\lVert g-w\rVert\le\delta\,\lVert w-x\rVert.

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