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Elementary Properties of Lebesgue Outer Measure on Rn\mathbb{R}^n

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Reason: Establishes the basic calculus of Lebesgue outer measure: agreement with the measure on Borel sets, monotonicity, existence of Borel hulls, countable subadditivity, and the characterisation of null sets. · 1,877 chars · 3 deps · depth 17

Lebesgue outer measure agrees with Lebesgue measure on Borel sets, is monotone and countably subadditive, admits Borel measurable hulls, and vanishes exactly on the null sets.

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We work in the setting of Euclidean Space and Lebesgue Measure: Standing Notation, whose notation is fixed for every dimension and is used here with a natural number nn satisfying 1n1\le n: thus B(Rn)\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^{n}) is the Borel σ\sigma-algebra of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}, λn\lambda_{n} is Lebesgue measure on it, and the conventions for [0,][0,\infty] and for the sum of a sequence in [0,][0,\infty] are those fixed there. Write λn\lambda_{n}^{\ast} for Lebesgue outer measure, defined on all subsets of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}. Then the following hold.

1. (Agreement on Borel sets) For every BB(Rn)B\in\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^{n}) one has λn(B)=λn(B)\lambda_{n}^{\ast}(B)=\lambda_{n}(B).

2. (Monotonicity) If EFRnE\subseteq F\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{n} then λn(E)λn(F)\lambda_{n}^{\ast}(E)\le\lambda_{n}^{\ast}(F).

3. (Borel hull) For every subset EE of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} there is BB(Rn)B\in\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^{n}) with EBE\subseteq B and λn(B)=λn(E)\lambda_{n}(B)=\lambda_{n}^{\ast}(E). Such a BB is called a Borel hull of EE.

4. (Countable subadditivity) For every sequence (Em)mN(E_{m})_{m\in\mathbb{N}} of subsets of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n},

λn(mNEm)mNλn(Em).\lambda_{n}^{\ast}\Bigl(\bigcup_{m\in\mathbb{N}}E_{m}\Bigr)\le\sum_{m\in\mathbb{N}}\lambda_{n}^{\ast}(E_{m}).

5. (Null sets) A subset EE of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} is λn\lambda_{n}-null if and only if λn(E)=0\lambda_{n}^{\ast}(E)=0. Consequently every subset of a λn\lambda_{n}-null set is λn\lambda_{n}-null, and if (Em)mN(E_{m})_{m\in\mathbb{N}} is a sequence of λn\lambda_{n}-null subsets of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} then mNEm\bigcup_{m\in\mathbb{N}}E_{m} is λn\lambda_{n}-null.

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