陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「245A, Notes 6: Outer measures, pre-measures, and product measures」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

In this course so far, we have focused primarily on one specific example of a countably additive measure, namely Lebesgue measure . This measure was constructed from a more primitive concept of Lebesgue outer measure , which in turn was constructed from the even more primitive concept of elementary measure .a It turns out that both of these constructions can be abstracted. In this set of notes, 下面会 give the Carathéodory lemma , which constructs a countably additive measure fr

— 1. Outer measures and the Carathéodory extension theorem —

已知结果和反例

We begin with the abstract concept of an outer measure.

Definition 1 (Abstract outer measure) Let be a set. An abstract outer measure (or outer measure for short) is a map that assigns an unsigned extended real number to every set which obeys the following axioms:

证明或构造的主线

Outer measures are also known as exterior measures . Thus, for instance, Lebesgue outer measure is an outer measure (see Exercise 4 of Notes 1 ) is an outer measure. On the other hand, Jordan outer measure is only finitely subadditive rather than countably subadditive and thus is not, strictly speaking, an outer measure; for this reason this concept is often referred to as Jordan outer content rather than Jordan outer measure . Note that outer measures are weaker than measure

Definition 2 (Carathéodory measurability) Let be an outer measure on a set . A set is said to be Carathéodory measurable with respect to if one has

阅读时建议盯住的点

Exercise 3 (Null sets are Carathéodory measurable) Suppose that is a null set for an outer measure (i.e. ). Show that is Carathéodory measurable with respect to .

Exercise 4 (Compatibility with Lebesgue measurability) Show that a set is Carathéodory measurable with respect to Lebesgue outer measure if and only if it is Lebesgue measurable. ( Hint: one direction follows from Exercise 17 of Notes 1 . For the other direction, first verify simple cases, such as when is a box, or when or are bounded.)

值得单独记下的条目

• (Monotonicity) If , then .
• (Countable subadditivity) If is a countable sequence of subsets of , then .
• Show that the requirement that is finitely additive could be relaxed to the condition that without affecting the definition of a pre-measure.
• Show that the condition could be relaxed to without affecting the definition of a pre-measure.
• On the other hand, give an example to show that if one performs both of the above two relaxations at once, one starts admitting objects that are not pre-measures.
• Show that is a pre-measure.
• Show that is the Borel -algebra .
• Show that the Hahn-Kolmogorov extension of assigns an infinite measure to any non-empty Borel set.

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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