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Proof of Lebesgue Measure on Euclidean Space is Sigma-Finite

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· 2,038 chars · 8 deps · depth 16 Reason: Proof of sigma-finiteness of Lebesgue measure via the balls of natural radius about the origin.

Each ball is Borel and bounded, hence of finite measure by the ball and bounded-set bounds for Lebesgue measure; the Archimedean property puts every point in some ball.

Proof

Each result cited is universally quantified over the data in its own statement. Fix m∈Nm\in\mathbb{N} and write Bm=B(o,ι(m))B_{m}=B(o,\iota(m)).

Step 1 (Borel). By claim 1 of Balls Have Positive Lebesgue Measure and Bounded Sets Have Finite Lebesgue Measure, applied with n=qn=q, centre oo and radius ι(m)\iota(m), the set BmB_{m} belongs to B(Rq)\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^{q}); the measure λn\lambda_{n} and the balls of that lemma are the Lebesgue measure λq\lambda_{q} of Euclidean Space and Lebesgue Measure: Standing Notation §measure and the balls of Euclidean Space and Lebesgue Measure: Standing Notation §space, both being taken from Lebesgue Measure on Rn\mathbb{R}^n and Open Ball in a Metric Space for the Euclidean distance dEd_{E}.

Step 2 (finite measure). For every y∈Bmy\in B_{m} we have dE(o,y)<ι(m)d_{E}(o,y)<\iota(m) by Open Ball in a Metric Space, hence dE(o,y)≤ι(m)d_{E}(o,y)\le\iota(m). With the point oo and the positive real R=ι(m)R=\iota(m) this is the condition of Bounded Subset of a Metric Space, so BmB_{m} is bounded, and λq(Bm)<∞\lambda_{q}(B_{m})<\infty by claim 2 of Balls Have Positive Lebesgue Measure and Bounded Sets Have Finite Lebesgue Measure.

Step 3 (covering). Each BmB_{m} is a subset of Rq\mathbb{R}^{q}, so ⋃m∈NBm⊆Rq\bigcup_{m\in\mathbb{N}}B_{m}\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{q}. Conversely let x∈Rqx\in\mathbb{R}^{q}. By claim 1 of The Archimedean Property of the Real Numbers, applied to the real number ∥x∥\lVert x\rVert, there is k∈Nk\in\mathbb{N} with ∥x∥<ι(k)\lVert x\rVert<\iota(k). Since oo is the zero vector, x−o=xx-o=x, and dEd_{E} is symmetric, being a metric; so dE(o,x)=dE(x,o)=∥x−o∥=∥x∥<ι(k)d_{E}(o,x)=d_{E}(x,o)=\lVert x-o\rVert=\lVert x\rVert<\iota(k) by Euclidean Space and Lebesgue Measure: Standing Notation §space. Thus x∈Bkx\in B_{k}, and Rq=⋃m∈NBm\mathbb{R}^{q}=\bigcup_{m\in\mathbb{N}}B_{m}.

Step 4 (σ\sigma-finiteness). By Steps 1 to 3, (Bm)m∈N(B_{m})_{m\in\mathbb{N}} is a sequence in B(Rq)\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^{q}) whose union is Rq\mathbb{R}^{q} and each of whose members has finite λq\lambda_{q}-measure. This is the definition of σ\sigma-finiteness in Measure, Measure Space, and Probability Measure. ■\blacksquare

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