Examples of non-shy sets

Randall Dougherty

Fundamenta Mathematicae (1994)

  • Volume: 144, Issue: 1, page 73-88
  • ISSN: 0016-2736

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Christensen has defined a generalization of the property of being of Haar measure zero to subsets of (abelian) Polish groups which need not be locally compact; a recent paper of Hunt, Sauer, and Yorke defines the same property for Borel subsets of linear spaces, and gives a number of examples and applications. The latter authors use the term “shyness” for this property, and “prevalence” for the complementary property. In the present paper, we construct a number of examples of non-shy Borel sets in various groups, and thereby answer several questions of Christensen and Mycielski. The main results are: in many (most?) non-locally-compact Polish groups, the ideal of shy sets does not satisfy the countable chain condition (i.e., there exist uncountably many disjoint non-shy Borel sets); in function spaces C ( ω 2 , G ) where G is an abelian Polish group, the set of functions f which are highly non-injective is non-shy, and even prevalent if G is locally compact.

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Dougherty, Randall. "Examples of non-shy sets." Fundamenta Mathematicae 144.1 (1994): 73-88. <http://eudml.org/doc/212016>.

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References

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  1. [1] J. P. R. Christensen, On sets of Haar measure zero in abelian Polish groups, Israel J. Math. 13 (1972), 255-260. 
  2. [2] R. Dougherty and J. Mycielski, The prevalence of permutations with infinite cycles, this volume, 89-94. Zbl0837.43008
  3. [3] B. Hunt, T. Sauer, and J. Yorke, Prevalence: a translation-invariant "almost every" on infinite-dimensional spaces, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 217-238. Zbl0763.28009
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