A simple proof of Vitali's theorem for signed measures

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.120.07.654MaRDI QIDQ2856468zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tony Samuel

Publication date 29 October 2013

Published in American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2106

zbMATH Keywords

measuresVitali's theoremsigned measuresnonmeasurable sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of sets (Borel fields, (sigma)-rings, etc.), measurable sets, Suslin sets, analytic sets (28A05) Contents, measures, outer measures, capacities (28A12)

Abstract: There are several theorems named after the Italian mathematician Vitali. In this note we provide a simple proof of an extension of Vitali's Theorem on the existence of non-measurable sets. Specifically, we show, without using any decomposition theorems, that there does not exist a non-trivial, atom-less, $sigma$-additive and translation invariant set function $mathcalL$ from the power set of the real line to the extended real numbers with $mathcalL([0,1])=1$. (Note that $mathcalL$ is not assumed to be non-negative.)

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