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「Qualitative probability theory, types, and the group chunk and group configuration theorem」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

The classical foundations of probability theory (discussed for instance in this previous blog post ) is founded on the notion of a probability space – a space (the sample space ) equipped with a -algebra (the event space ), together with a countably additive probability measure that assigns a real number in the interval to each event.

One can generalise the concept of a probability space to a finitely additive probability space, in which the event space is now only a Boolean algebra rather than a -algebra, and the measure is now only finitely additive instead of countably additive, thus when are disjoint events. By giving up countable additivity, one loses a fair amount of measure and integration theory, and in particular the notion of the expectation of a random variable becomes problematic (unless the ra

已知结果和反例

在这类讨论里 I would like to describe a further weakening of probability theory, which I will call qualitative probability theory , in which one does not assign a precise numerical probability value to each event, but instead merely records whether this probability is zero, one, or something in between. Thus is now a function from to the set , where is a new symbol that replaces all the elements of the open interval . In this setting, one can no longer compute quantitative expressi

The main reason I want to introduce this weak notion of probability theory is that it becomes suited to talk about random variables living inside algebraic varieties, even if these varieties are defined over fields other than or . In algebraic geometry one often talks about a “generic” element of a variety defined over a field , which does not lie in any specified variety of lower dimension defined over . Once has positive dimension, such generic elements do not exist as clas

证明或构造的主线

It turns out that just as qualitative random variables may be used to interpret the concept of a generic point, they can also be used to interpret the concept of a type in model theory; the type of a random variable is the set of all predicates that are almost surely obeyed by . In contrast, model theorists often adopt a Weil-type approach to types, in which one works with deterministic representatives of a type, which often do not occur in the original structure of interest,

— 1. Qualitative probability theory – generalities —

阅读时建议盯住的点

We begin by setting up the foundations of qualitative probability theory, proceeding by close analogy with the more familiar quantitative probability theory (though of course 下面会 have to jettison various quantitative concepts, such as mean and variance, from the theory).

As discussed in the introduction, we are replacing the unit interval by the three-element set ; one could view this as the quotient space of in which the interior has been contracted to a single point . This space is still totally ordered: . The addition relation on contracts to an “addition” relation on , defined by the following rules:

值得单独记下的条目

• (Monotonicity) If are in , and , then .
• (Intersection) If , then .
• (Products) If and , then .
• (Slicing) If , then for all , and for all .
• (i) Show that is irreducible if and only if it is the uniform measure of some almost irreducible subset of .
• (i) (Uniform distribution) For any , has the uniform distribution on .
• (ii) (Independence) For any distinct , are independent.
• (iii) (Determination) For any distinct , is determined by .

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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