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「The Lebesgue differentiation theorem and the Szemeredi regularity lemma」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

This post is a sequel of sorts to my earlier post on hard and soft analysis, and the finite convergence principle . Here, I want to discuss a well-known theorem in infinitary soft analysis – the Lebesgue differentiation theorem – and whether there is any meaningful finitary version of this result. Along the way, it turns out that 下面会 uncover a simple analogue of the Szemerédi regularity lemma , for subsets of the interval rather than for graphs. (Actually, regularity lemmas s

The Lebesgue differentiation theorem has many formulations, but 下面会 avoid the strongest versions and just stick to the following model case for simplicity:

已知结果和反例

Lebesgue differentiation theorem . If is Lebesgue measurable , then for almost every we have . Equivalently, the fundamental theorem of calculus is true for almost every x in [0,1].

Here we use the oriented definite integral, thus . Specialising to the case where is an indicator function , we obtain the Lebesgue density theorem as a corollary:

证明或构造的主线

Lebesgue density theorem . Let be Lebesgue measurable. Then for almost every , we have as , where |A| denotes the Lebesgue measure of A.

In other words, almost all the points x of A are points of density of A, which roughly speaking means that as one passes to finer and finer scales, the immediate vicinity of x becomes increasingly saturated with A. (Points of density are like robust versions of interior points, thus the Lebesgue density theorem is an assertion that measurable sets are almost like open sets. This is Littlewood’s first principle .) One can also deduce the Lebesgue differentiation theorem back f

阅读时建议盯住的点

The Lebesgue differentiation and density theorems are qualitative in nature: they assert that eventually gets close to f(x) for almost every x, or that A will eventually occupy most of [x-r,x+r] for almost every x in A, by taking r small enough, but does not give a quantitative bound for how small r has to be. The following simple example shows why there is a problem. Let n be a large integer, and partition [0,1] into dyadic intervals (never mind about the overlaps on the bou

One then sees that if x is any element of which is not on the boundary, then it is indeed true that the local density of will eventually converge to 1, but one has to wait until r is of size or smaller before one sees this; for scales much larger than this, the local density will remain stubbornly close to 1/2. A similar phenomenon holds for the indicator functions : the local average will eventually get close to , which is either 0 or 1, but when , these averages will also s

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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