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The Measure Game

Logic 2019-10-25 v1

Abstract

We study a game first introduced by Martin (actually we use a slight variation of this game) which plays a role for measure analogous to the Banach-Mazur game for category. We first present proofs for the basic connections between this game and measure, and then use the game to prove fundamental measure theoretic results such as Fubini's theorem, the Borel-Cantelli lemma, and a general unfolding result for the game which gives, for example, the measurability of Σ11\boldsymbol{\Sigma}^1_1 sets. We also use the game to give a new, more constructive, proof of a strong form of the R\'{e}nyi-Lamperti lemma, an important result in probability theory with many applications to number theory. The proofs we give are all direct combinatorial arguments using the game, and do not depend on known measure theoretic arguments.

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@article{arxiv.1910.11181,
  title  = {The Measure Game},
  author = {Logan Crone and Lior Fishman and Stephen Jackson and Houston Schuerger and David Simmons},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.11181},
  year   = {2019}
}
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