On strictly nonzero integer-valued charges

DOI10.1090/PROC/13700MaRDI QIDQ4577153zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Swastik Kopparty, K. P. S. Bhaskara Rao

Publication date 17 July 2018

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01173

zbMATH Keywords

Boolean algebrachargesclopen setspermutaion-invariant charges

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other combinatorial set theory (03E05) Group- or semigroup-valued set functions, measures and integrals (28B10)

Abstract: A charge (finitely additive measure) defined on a Boolean algebra of sets taking values in a group $G$ is called a strictly nonzero (SNZ) charge if it takes the identity value in $G$ only for the zero element of the Boolean algebra. A study of such charges was initiated by Rudiger G"obel and K.P.S. Bhaskara Rao in 2002. Our main result is a solution to one of the questions posed in that paper: we show that for every cardinal $aleph$, the Boolean algebra of clopen sets of ${0,1}^{a}leph$ has a strictly nonzero integer-valued charge. The key lemma that we prove is that there exists a strictly nonzero integer-valued permutation-invariant charge on the Boolean algebra of clopen sets of ${0,1}^{alep{h}_0}$. Our proof is based on linear-algebraic arguments, as well as certain kinds of polynomial approximations of binomial coefficients. We also show that there is no integer-valued SNZ charge on $mathcalP(N)$. Finally, we raise some interesting problems on integer-valued SNZ charges.

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