Lebesgue density and exceptional points
Abstract: Work in the measure algebra of the Lebesgue measure on the Cantor space: for comeager many $[A]$ the set of points $x$ such that the density of $x $ at $A$ is not defined is $\Sigma{0}_{3}$-complete; for some compact $K$ the set of points $x$ such that the density of $x$ at $K$ exists and it is different from $0$ or $1$ is $\Pi{0}_{3}$-complete; the set of all $[K]$ with $K$ compact is $\Pi{0}_{3}$-complete. There is a set (which can be taken to be open or closed) in $\mathbb R$ such that the density of any point is either $0$ or $1$, or else undefined. Conversely, if a subset of $\mathbb Rn$ is such that the density exists at every point, then the value $1/2$ is always attained. On the route to this result we show that Cantor space can be embedded in a measured Polish space in a measure-preserving fashion.
Paper Prompts
Sign up for free to create and run prompts on this paper using GPT-5.
Top Community Prompts
Collections
Sign up for free to add this paper to one or more collections.