Uniquely determined uniform probability on the natural numbers

DOI10.1007/S10959-015-0611-2MaRDI QIDQ325894zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Timber Kerkvliet, Ronald Meester

Publication date 11 October 2016

Published in Journal of Theoretical Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3999

zbMATH Keywords

foundations of probabilityfinite additivityKolmogorov axiomsuniform probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

Abstract: In this paper, we address the problem of constructing a uniform probability measure on $mathbbN$. Of course, this is not possible within the bounds of the Kolmogorov axioms and we have to violate at least one axiom. We define a probability measure as a finitely additive measure assigning probability $1$ to the whole space, on a domain which is closed under complements and finite disjoint unions. We introduce and motivate a notion of uniformity which we call weak thinnability, which is strictly stronger than extension of natural density. We construct a weakly thinnable probability measure and we show that on its domain, which contains sets without natural density, probability is uniquely determined by weak thinnability. In this sense, we can assign uniform probabilities in a canonical way. We generalize this result to uniform probability measures on other metric spaces, including $mathbb{R}^n$.

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