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Lebesgue density and exceptional points

Logic 2018-08-15 v1

Abstract

Work in the measure algebra of the Lebesgue measure on the Cantor space: for comeager many [A][A] the set of points xx such that the density of xx at AA is not defined is Σ30\Sigma^{0}_{3}-complete; for some compact KK the set of points xx such that the density of xx at KK exists and it is different from 00 or 11 is Π30\Pi^{0}_{3}-complete; the set of all [K][K] with KK compact is Π30\Pi^{0}_{3}-complete. There is a set (which can be taken to be open or closed) in R\mathbb R such that the density of any point is either 00 or 11, or else undefined. Conversely, if a subset of Rn\mathbb R^n is such that the density exists at every point, then the value 1/21/2 is always attained. On the route to this result we show that Cantor space can be embedded in a measured Polish space in a measure-preserving fashion.

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@article{arxiv.1510.04193,
  title  = {Lebesgue density and exceptional points},
  author = {Alessandro Andretta and Riccardo Camerlo and Camillo Costantini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.04193},
  year   = {2018}
}
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