On Haar null sets

• Autorzy: Sławomir Solecki
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

We prove that in Polish, abelian, non-locally-compact groups the family of Haar null sets of Christensen does not fulfil the countable chain condition, that is, there exists an uncountable family of pairwise disjoint universally measurable sets which are not Haar null. (Dougherty, answering an old question of Christensen, showed earlier that this was the case for some Polish, abelian, non-locally-compact groups.) Thus we obtain the following characterization of locally compact, abelian groups: Let G be a Polish, abelian group. Then the σ-ideal of Haar null sets satisfies the countable chain condition iff G is locally compact. We also show that in Polish, abelian, non-locally-compact groups analytic sets cannot be approximated up to Haar null sets by Borel, or even co-analytic, sets; however, each analytic Haar null set is contained in a Borel Haar null set. Actually, we prove all the above results for a class of groups which is much wider than the class of all Polish, abelian groups, namely for Polish groups admitting a metric which is both left- and right-invariant.

Kategorie tematyczne

• 28C10: Set functions and measures on topological groups or semigroups, Haar measures, invariant measures
• 43A05: Measures on groups and semigroups, etc.
• 28A05: Classes of sets (Borel fields, σ -rings, etc.), measurable sets, Suslin sets, analytic sets

• Wydawca: Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences
• Czasopismo: Fundamenta Mathematicae
• Rocznik: 1996
• Tom: 149
• Numer: 3
• Strony: 205-210

Daty

wydano

1996

otrzymano

1994-08-29

poprawiono

1995-07-20

Twórcy

autor

Sławomir Solecki

• Department of Mathematics, 253-37, Caltech, Pasadena, California 91125, U.S.A.
• Department of Mathematics, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, U.S.A.

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