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The transfinite mean

Logic 2020-09-08 v3 Classical Analysis and ODEs Probability

Abstract

We define a generalization of the arithmetic mean to bounded transfinite sequences of real numbers. We show that every probability space admits a transfinite sequences of points such that the measure of each measurable subset is equal to the frequency with which the sequence is in this subset. We include an argument suggested by Woodin that the club filter on ω1\omega_1 does not admit such a sequence of order type ω1\omega_1.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1708.06584,
  title  = {The transfinite mean},
  author = {Andre Kornell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.06584},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

10 pages; improved presentation

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