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Outer and Inner Regularity of Lebesgue Measure on Rn\mathbb{R}^n

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Reason: Supplies outer and inner regularity of Lebesgue measure on R^n, absent from the corpus until now and required throughout the covering theory. · 2,095 chars · 2 deps · depth 17

Every Borel subset of Rn\mathbb{R}^n is approximated from outside by open sets and from inside by closed sets, and by compact sets when its measure is finite; the outer measure of an arbitrary set is the infimum of the measures of its open supersets.

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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: the Euclidean norm, distance, topology and the notions of open, closed, bounded and compact subsets of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}, the Borel σ\sigma-algebra B(Rn)\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^{n}), which contains every open and every closed subset of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}, and Lebesgue measure λn\lambda_{n} with its conventions for [0,][0,\infty], are all as fixed there. Write λn\lambda_{n}^{\ast} for Lebesgue outer measure. Then the following hold.

1. (Outer regularity) Let BB(Rn)B\in\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^{n}) and let εR\varepsilon\in\mathbb{R} with 0<ε0<\varepsilon. Then there is an open set URnU\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{n} with BUB\subseteq U and λn(UB)ε\lambda_{n}(U\setminus B)\le\varepsilon.

2. (Inner regularity by closed sets) Let BB(Rn)B\in\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^{n}) and let εR\varepsilon\in\mathbb{R} with 0<ε0<\varepsilon. Then there is a closed set FRnF\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{n} with FBF\subseteq B and λn(BF)ε\lambda_{n}(B\setminus F)\le\varepsilon.

3. (Inner regularity by compact sets) Let BB(Rn)B\in\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^{n}) with λn(B)<\lambda_{n}(B)<\infty and let εR\varepsilon\in\mathbb{R} with 0<ε0<\varepsilon. Then there is a compact set KBK\subseteq B with λn(BK)ε\lambda_{n}(B\setminus K)\le\varepsilon.

4. (Outer regularity of the outer measure) Let ERnE\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{n} be arbitrary. If λn(E)=\lambda_{n}^{\ast}(E)=\infty then λn(U)=\lambda_{n}(U)=\infty for every open URnU\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{n} with EUE\subseteq U. If λn(E)<\lambda_{n}^{\ast}(E)<\infty then for every εR\varepsilon\in\mathbb{R} with 0<ε0<\varepsilon there is an open URnU\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{n} with EUE\subseteq U and λn(U)λn(E)+ε\lambda_{n}(U)\le\lambda_{n}^{\ast}(E)+\varepsilon.

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