Friday, 11 April 2014

real analysis - Non-measurable set A such that AcapmathbbQc is measurable



Does there exist a non-(Lebesgue)measurable set AR such that B={xA:xRQ} is measurable?




My thoughts: the only non-measurable sets I've seen so far are the Vitali sets, so thinking along this line - are the irrational points in a Vitali set V measurable? It would be enough to show that their complement is measurable - that is, is the set {xV:xQ} measurable? Since the set V is obtained by taking the quotient group RQ, the rational points are all in a single equivalence class represented by, say, 0, which certainly is measurable as it is a singleton.



Is my thinking correct? If not, does there exist another example?


Answer



No.



Let I be the set of irrational numbers.



Let VR non measurable.




If VI is measurable with respect to the Lebesgue measure then VQ is measurable as a set of Lebesgue measure zero .



Thus V=(VI)(VQ) would be measurable as a union of measurable sets.



This is a contradiction.




Also note that the Lebesgue measure is complete so a subset of a set of Lebesgue measure zero is measurable.




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