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「245B, notes 2: Amenability, the ping-pong lemma, and the Banach-Tarski paradox (optional)」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

Notational convention: 在这类讨论里 only, I will colour a statement red if it assumes the axiom of choice . (For the rest of the course, the axiom of choice will be implicitly assumed throughout.)

The famous Banach-Tarski paradox asserts that one can take the unit ball in three dimensions, divide it up into finitely many pieces, and then translate and rotate each piece so that their union is now two disjoint unit balls. As a consequence of this paradox, it is not possible to create a finitely additive measure on that is both translation and rotation invariant, which can measure every subset of , and which gives the unit ball a non-zero measure. This paradox helps expla

已知结果和反例

On the other hand, it is not possible to replicate the Banach-Tarski paradox in one or two dimensions; the unit interval in or unit disk in cannot be rearranged into two unit intervals or two unit disks using only finitely many pieces, translations, and rotations, and indeed there do exist non-trivial finitely additive measures on these spaces. However, it is possible to obtain a Banach-Tarski type paradox in one or two dimensions using countably many such pieces; this rules

In these notes I would like to establish all of the above results, and tie them in with some important concepts and tools in modern group theory, most notably amenability and the ping-pong lemma . This material is not required for the rest of the course, but nevertheless has some independent interest.

证明或构造的主线

Before we study the three-dimensional situation, let us first review the simpler one-dimensional situation. To avoid having to say “X can be cut up into finitely many pieces, which can then be moved around to create Y” all the time, let us make a convenient definition:

Definition 1. (Equidecomposability) Let be a group acting on a space X, and let A, B be subsets of X.

阅读时建议盯住的点

One can of course make similar definitions when is an additive group rather than a multiplicative one.

Clearly, finite G-equidecomposability implies countable G-equidecomposability, but the converse is not true. Observe that any finitely (resp. countably) additive and G-invariant measure on X that measures every single subset of X, must give either a zero measure or an infinite measure to a finitely (resp. countably) G-paradoxical set. Thus, paradoxical sets provide significant obstructions to constructing additive measures that can measure all sets.

值得单独记下的条目

• We say that A, B are finitely G-equidecomposable if there exist finite partitions and and group elements such that for all .
• We say that A, B are countably G-equidecomposable if there exist countable partitions and and group elements such that for all i.
• We say that A is finitely G-paradoxical if it can be partitioned into two subsets, each of which is finitely G-equidecomposable with A.
• We say that A is countably G-paradoxical if it can be partitioned into two subsets, each of which is countably G-equidecomposable with A.
• If A is finitely G-equidecomposable with a subset of B, and B is finitely G-equidecomposable with a subset of A, show that A and B are finitely G-equidecomposable with each other. (Hint: adapt the proof of the Schroder-Bernstein theorem .)
• If A is finitely G-equidecomposable with a superset of B, and B is finitely G-equidecomposable with a superset of A, show that A and B are finitely G-equidecomposable with each other. (Hint: use part 1.)
• Show that claims 1 and 2 hold when “finitely” is replaced by “countably”.

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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