Carathéodory measure
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The measure induced by the outer Carathéodory measure , the latter being an outer measure defined on the class of all subsets of a metric space (with a metric ) such that
if . It was introduced by C. Carathéodory [1]. A set belongs to the domain of definition of , i.e. is -measurable, if and only if
for every (here ). If is -measurable, then . The domain of definition of a Carathéodory measure contains all Borel sets. If is an outer measure on the class of all subsets of a metric space such that every open set is -measurable, then is an outer Carathéodory measure.
References
[1] | C. Carathéodory, "Ueber das lineare Mass von Punktmengen, eine Verallgemeinerung des Längenbegriffs" Nachr. Gesell. Wiss. Göttingen (1914) pp. 404–426 |
[2] | S. Saks, "Theory of the integral" , Hafner (1952) (Translated from French) |
[3] | P.R. Halmos, "Measure theory" , v. Nostrand (1950) |
Comments
An outer Carathéodory measure is also frequently called a metric outer measure, cf. [a1].
References
[a1] | E. Hewitt, K.R. Stromberg, "Real and abstract analysis" , Springer (1965) |
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Carathéodory measure. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Carath%C3%A9odory_measure&oldid=23222
Carathéodory measure. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Carath%C3%A9odory_measure&oldid=23222
This article was adapted from an original article by V.V. Sazonov (originator), which appeared in Encyclopedia of Mathematics - ISBN 1402006098. See original article