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Proof of The Support of a Borel Measure is Closed, and Carries Full Measure on a Separable Space

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A 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.

Proof

Each result cited below is universally quantified over the data in its own statement.

Claim 1. Let xXsuppμx\in X\setminus\operatorname{supp}\mu. By Support of a Borel Measure on a Metric Space §support there is rRr\in\mathbb{R} with 0<r0<r for which 0<μ(Bd(x,r))0<\mu(B_{d}(x,r)) fails; as 00 is the least element of [0,][0,\infty] in the order fixed in Measure, Measure Space, and Probability Measure, this means μ(Bd(x,r))=0\mu(B_{d}(x,r))=0.

Let yBd(x,r)y\in B_{d}(x,r), so that d(x,y)<rd(x,y)<r by Open Ball in a Metric Space, and put s=rd(x,y)s=r-d(x,y), a positive real number. If wBd(y,s)w\in B_{d}(y,s) then the triangle inequality of Metric Space gives

d(x,w)d(x,y)+d(y,w)<d(x,y)+s=r,d(x,w)\le d(x,y)+d(y,w)<d(x,y)+s=r ,

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 wBd(x,r)w\in B_{d}(x,r). Thus Bd(y,s)Bd(x,r)B_{d}(y,s)\subseteq B_{d}(x,r), and claim 2 of Basic Properties of a Measure gives μ(Bd(y,s))μ(Bd(x,r))=0\mu(B_{d}(y,s))\le\mu(B_{d}(x,r))=0, so μ(Bd(y,s))=0\mu(B_{d}(y,s))=0 and ysuppμy\notin\operatorname{supp}\mu.

Therefore Bd(x,r)XsuppμB_{d}(x,r)\subseteq X\setminus\operatorname{supp}\mu. Since xXsuppμx\in X\setminus\operatorname{supp}\mu was arbitrary, Open Subset of a Metric Space gives XsuppμTdX\setminus\operatorname{supp}\mu\in\mathcal{T}_{d}. Consequently suppμ\operatorname{supp}\mu, the complement of a member of Td\mathcal{T}_{d}, is closed in (X,Td)(X,\mathcal{T}_{d}); and XsuppμX\setminus\operatorname{supp}\mu belongs to B(X,d)\mathcal{B}(X,d) by Borel Sigma-Algebra of a Metric Space, hence so does its complement suppμ\operatorname{supp}\mu by Sigma-Algebra and Measurable Space.

Claim 2. Assume (X,d)(X,d) separable. If X=X=\emptyset then Xsuppμ=X\setminus\operatorname{supp}\mu=\emptyset and μ()=0\mu(\emptyset)=0 by Measure, Measure Space, and Probability Measure, so assume XX\neq\emptyset and fix x0Xx_{0}\in X.

By Separable Metric Space there is a countable DXD\subseteq X that is dense in XX, that is clX(D)=X\operatorname{cl}_{X}(D)=X. Applying claim 3 of Characterization of the Closure in a Metric Space by Open Balls to x0clX(D)x_{0}\in\operatorname{cl}_{X}(D) produces a point of DD, so DD\ne\emptyset and, by Countable Set, DD is the set of terms of a sequence (qj)jN(q_{j})_{j\in\mathbb{N}}. The set Q\mathbb{Q} 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 (tl)lN(t_{l})_{l\in\mathbb{N}}.

For j,lNj,l\in\mathbb{N} put Aj,l=Bd(qj,tl)A_{j,l}=B_{d}(q_{j},t_{l}) if 0<tl0<t_{l} and μ(Bd(qj,tl))=0\mu(B_{d}(q_{j},t_{l}))=0, and Aj,l=A_{j,l}=\emptyset otherwise; in either case Aj,lB(X,d)A_{j,l}\in\mathcal{B}(X,d) (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 μ(Aj,l)=0\mu(A_{j,l})=0. Put Vj=lNAj,lV_{j}=\bigcup_{l\in\mathbb{N}}A_{j,l} and U=jNVjU=\bigcup_{j\in\mathbb{N}}V_{j}. By countable subadditivity (claim 4 of Basic Properties of a Measure) μ(Vj)lNμ(Aj,l)=0\mu(V_{j})\le\sum_{l\in\mathbb{N}}\mu(A_{j,l})=0, the sum of a sequence with every term 00 being 00 by the conventions of Measure, Measure Space, and Probability Measure; the same lemma applied to (Vj)jN(V_{j})_{j\in\mathbb{N}} gives μ(U)=0\mu(U)=0.

It remains to show XsuppμUX\setminus\operatorname{supp}\mu\subseteq U. Let xsuppμx\notin\operatorname{supp}\mu and, as in claim 1, take rRr\in\mathbb{R} with 0<r0<r and μ(Bd(x,r))=0\mu(B_{d}(x,r))=0. By claim 8 of Elementary Order Arithmetic in an Ordered Field the number r/2r/2, the product of rr with the inverse of 2=1+12=1+1, is positive, so by The Rational Numbers are Dense in the Real Numbers there is tQt\in\mathbb{Q} with 0<t<r/20<t<r/2; choose lNl\in\mathbb{N} with tl=tt_{l}=t. Since clX(D)=X\operatorname{cl}_{X}(D)=X, claim 3 of Characterization of the Closure in a Metric Space by Open Balls gives jNj\in\mathbb{N} with d(x,qj)<td(x,q_{j})<t, so xBd(qj,t)x\in B_{d}(q_{j},t) by the symmetry of dd (Metric Space). For wBd(qj,t)w\in B_{d}(q_{j},t) the triangle inequality gives

d(x,w)d(x,qj)+d(qj,w)<t+t=2t<r,d(x,w)\le d(x,q_{j})+d(q_{j},w)<t+t=2t<r ,

using claims 1, 2 and 10 of Elementary Order Arithmetic in an Ordered Field for the two strict inequalities. Hence Bd(qj,t)Bd(x,r)B_{d}(q_{j},t)\subseteq B_{d}(x,r) and μ(Bd(qj,t))μ(Bd(x,r))=0\mu(B_{d}(q_{j},t))\le\mu(B_{d}(x,r))=0 by claim 2 of Basic Properties of a Measure. Therefore Aj,l=Bd(qj,t)A_{j,l}=B_{d}(q_{j},t), and xAj,lUx\in A_{j,l}\subseteq U.

Both XsuppμX\setminus\operatorname{supp}\mu (by claim 1) and UU belong to B(X,d)\mathcal{B}(X,d), so claim 2 of Basic Properties of a Measure gives μ(Xsuppμ)μ(U)=0\mu(X\setminus\operatorname{supp}\mu)\le\mu(U)=0, that is μ(Xsuppμ)=0\mu(X\setminus\operatorname{supp}\mu)=0.

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