The fat Cantor set is a nowhere dense subset of R with positive Lebesgue measure. My question is, does there exist a Gδ set dense in the fat Cantor set with Lebesgue measure 0?
If such a set does exist, is it possible to produce an actual example of it?
Answer
Your fat Cantor set is closed, so it's a Gδ set. If C is any Gδ subset of R, there is a Gδ subset of C which is dense in C and has measure zero. Namely, let D be a countable dense subset of C, and let A be a Gδ set of measure zero containing D. Then A∩C is a Gδ set of measure zero and is dense in C.
To give an explicit example, you would start by defining an explicit fat Cantor set. Next, you need a countable dense subset D; you can do that by taking, for each interval [a,b] with rational endpoints such that [a,b]∩C≠∅, the least element of [a,b]∩C. Next, you need to specify an enumeration of D; that is easily obtained an enumeration of the rational intervals [a,b]. So now we have D={dn:n∈N}, a countable dense subset of C. Finally, define
A=∞⋂k=1∞⋃n=1(dn−2−n−k,dn+2−n−k).
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