Proof of The Support of a Borel Measure is Closed, and Carries Full Measure on a Separable Space
lemmalem:support-closed-full-measure-metric-2026aA null ball around a point outside the support is itself outside the support, which gives openness of the complement; on a separable space that complement is covered by countably many null balls centred at points of a dense sequence.
Each result cited below is universally quantified over the data in its own statement.
Claim 1. Let . By Support of a Borel Measure on a Metric Space §support there is with for which fails; as is the least element of in the order fixed in Measure, Measure Space, and Probability Measure, this means .
Let , so that by Open Ball in a Metric Space, and put , a positive real number. If then the triangle inequality of Metric Space gives
the middle step by strict compatibility of the order with addition and mixed transitivity (claims 1 and 2 of Elementary Order Arithmetic in an Ordered Field); hence . Thus , and claim 2 of Basic Properties of a Measure gives , so and .
Therefore . Since was arbitrary, Open Subset of a Metric Space gives . Consequently , the complement of a member of , is closed in ; and belongs to by Borel Sigma-Algebra of a Metric Space, hence so does its complement by Sigma-Algebra and Measurable Space.
Claim 2. Assume separable. If then and by Measure, Measure Space, and Probability Measure, so assume and fix .
By Separable Metric Space there is a countable that is dense in , that is . Applying claim 3 of Characterization of the Closure in a Metric Space by Open Balls to produces a point of , so and, by Countable Set, is the set of terms of a sequence . The set of rational numbers is countable by The Integers and the Rational Numbers are Countable and nonempty, hence is the set of terms of a sequence .
For put if and , and otherwise; in either case (an open ball is open by Open Ball in a Metric Space is Open, hence Borel by Borel Sigma-Algebra of a Metric Space) and . Put and . By countable subadditivity (claim 4 of Basic Properties of a Measure) , the sum of a sequence with every term being by the conventions of Measure, Measure Space, and Probability Measure; the same lemma applied to gives .
It remains to show . Let and, as in claim 1, take with and . By claim 8 of Elementary Order Arithmetic in an Ordered Field the number , the product of with the inverse of , is positive, so by The Rational Numbers are Dense in the Real Numbers there is with ; choose with . Since , claim 3 of Characterization of the Closure in a Metric Space by Open Balls gives with , so by the symmetry of (Metric Space). For the triangle inequality gives
using claims 1, 2 and 10 of Elementary Order Arithmetic in an Ordered Field for the two strict inequalities. Hence and by claim 2 of Basic Properties of a Measure. Therefore , and .
Both (by claim 1) and belong to , so claim 2 of Basic Properties of a Measure gives , that is .
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