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Proof of The Borel σ\sigma-Algebras of Euclidean Space and of the Euclidean Metric Coincide

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Reason: First published version. The two families of open sets coincide, and the generated sigma-algebra depends only on the generating family.

Proof

By Euclidean Openness Agrees with Metric Openness on Rn\mathbb{R}^n a subset of Rn\mathbb{R}^n is open in the Euclidean sense if and only if it is an open subset of the metric space (Rn,d)(\mathbb{R}^n,d). Write U\mathcal{U} for this single family of subsets of Rn\mathbb{R}^n: it is at once the family of all Euclidean open subsets of Rn\mathbb{R}^n and the family of all open subsets of (Rn,d)(\mathbb{R}^n,d).

By Borel Sigma-Algebra on Euclidean Space the σ\sigma-algebra B(Rn)\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^n) is the σ\sigma-algebra generated by the first of these families, and by Borel Sigma-Algebra of a Metric Space the σ\sigma-algebra B(Rn,d)\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^n,d) is the σ\sigma-algebra generated by the second; so both are the σ\sigma-algebra generated by U\mathcal{U}. The σ\sigma-algebra generated by a family of subsets of Rn\mathbb{R}^n consists of those subsets of Rn\mathbb{R}^n that belong to every σ\sigma-algebra on Rn\mathbb{R}^n containing the family, so it is determined by the family alone. Hence B(Rn,d)=B(Rn)\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^n,d)=\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^n).

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