We show that for every positive integer d there exists a ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$-action and an extremal σ-algebra of it which is not perfect.

It is shown that there exists a flow on a Lebesgue space with finite entropy and an extremal σ-algebra of it which is not perfect.

We investigate an algebraic notion of decidability which allows a uniform investigation of a large class of notions of forcing. Among other things, we show how to build σ-fields of sets connected with Laver and Miller notions of forcing and we show that these σ-fields are closed under the Suslin operation.

Let d be a positive integer and μ a generalized Cantor measure satisfying $\mu ={\sum }_{j=1}^m{a}_j\mu \circ S_j^{-1}$, where $0<a_j<1$, ${\sum }_{j=1}^m{a}_j=1$, $S_j=\rho R+b_j$ with 0 < ρ < 1 and R an orthogonal transformation of ${ℝ}^d$. Then ⎧1 < p ≤ 2 ⇒ ⎨$su{p}_{r>0}{r}^{d(1/{\alpha }^{\text{'}}-1/p^{\text{'}})}({\int }_{J_x^r}{\left|\mu ̂\left(y\right)\right|}^{p^{\text{'}}}{dy)}^{1/p^{\text{'}}}\le D₁{\rho }^{-d/{\alpha }^{\text{'}}}$, $x\in {ℝ}^d$, ⎩ p = 2 ⇒ infr≥1 rd(1/α’-1/2) (∫J₀r|μ̂(y)|² dy)1/2 ≥ D₂ρd/α’$,$where $J_x^r={\prod }_{i=1}^d(x_i-r/2,x_i+r/2)$, α’ is defined by ${\rho }^{d/{\alpha }^{\text{'}}}={\left({\sum }_{j=1}^m{a}_j^p\right)}^{1/p}$ and the constants D₁ and D₂ depend only on d and p.

The notion of NST domain and the closely related notion of ball condition, both topological in nature and quite useful within the theory of function spaces, are compared with each other (and with the older concept of porosity) and also with other notions of interest, like those of d-set and of interior regular domain, which have a measure-theoretical nature. Also, after extending the idea of NST (not so terrible) to a larger class of sets, the property is studied in the context of anisotropic self-affine...