We show that the existence of measurable envelopes of all subsets of ℝⁿ with respect to the d-dimensional Hausdorff measure (0 < d < n) is independent of ZFC. We also investigate the consistency of the existence of -measurable Sierpiński sets.
A hull of A ⊆ [0,1] is a set H containing A such that λ*(H) = λ*(A). We investigate all four versions of the following problem. Does there exist a monotone (with respect to inclusion) map that assigns a Borel/ hull to every negligible/measurable subset of [0,1]? Three versions turn out to be independent of ZFC, while in the fourth case we only prove that the nonexistence of a monotone hull operation for all measurable sets is consistent. It remains open whether existence here is also consistent....
We answer a question of Darji and Keleti by proving that there exists a compact set C₀ ⊂ ℝ of measure zero such that for every perfect set P ⊂ ℝ there exists x ∈ ℝ such that (C₀+x) ∩ P is uncountable. Using this C₀ we answer a question of Gruenhage by showing that it is consistent with ZFC (as it follows e.g. from ) that less than many translates of a compact set of measure zero can cover ℝ.
Gruenhage asked if it was possible to cover the real line by less than continuum many translates of a compact nullset. Under the Continuum Hypothesis the answer is obviously negative. Elekes and Stepr mans gave an affirmative answer by showing that if is the well known compact nullset considered first by Erdős and Kakutani then ℝ can be covered by cof() many translates of . As this set has no analogue in more general groups, it was asked by Elekes and Stepr mans whether such a result holds for...
Let X be a set, κ be a cardinal number and let ℋ be a family of subsets of X which covers each x ∈ X at least κ-fold. What assumptions can ensure that ℋ can be decomposed into κ many disjoint subcovers? We examine this problem under various assumptions on the set X and on the cover ℋ: among other situations, we consider covers of topological spaces by closed sets, interval covers of linearly ordered sets and covers of ℝⁿ by polyhedra and by arbitrary convex sets. We focus on...
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