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On the Selection of Compact Subsets of Positive Measure from Analytic Sets of Positive Measure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

D. G. Larman
D. G. Larman*
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia; University College London, Gower St., London
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An important but seemingly difficult problem is to decide whether or not an analytic set A of positive h-measure, for some continuous Hausdorff function h, contains a compact subset C of positive h-measure, in every complete separable metric space Ω.

By extending some earlier work of R. O. Davies [1], M. Sion and D. Sjerve [8] proved that

  • (i) the selection of the set C is always possible in a σ-compact metric space Ω. More recently Davies [2] has shown that it is always possible to select C

  • (ii) when h(t) = ts, t ≧ 0, for some fixed positive number s,

  • (iii) when Ω is finite dimensional in the sense of [4],

  • (iv) when A has σ-finite h-measure, and

  • (v) when Ω is an ultra metric space.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 1974 , pp. 665 - 677
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1974

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