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  • 9 - Category–Measure Duality

  • N. H. Bingham, Imperial College London, Adam J. Ostaszewski, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book:
    Category and Measure
    Published online:
    14 January 2025
    Print publication:
    23 January 2025, pp 137-160

  • Summary

    The close parallels – duality – between category and measure go back to Sierpiński in the 1920s. The Sierpiński–Erdős duality principle (see Oxtoby, Ch. 19) gives full duality under the Continuum Hypothesis, CH (see Chapter 16). An unconditional example of duality is the Poincaré recurrence theorem from statistical mechanics. So is the zero–one law of probability theory; duality does not extend as far as its quantitative versions, the strong law of large numbers and the ergodic theorem. Also discussed are: uniqueness theorems for trigonometric series; the Cauchy functional equation; the Steinhaus dichotomy – for S Baire and non-meagre (or measurable and non-null), the difference set S - S contains an interval around the origin (the dichotomy being that this may fail for meagre/null sets). Combinatorial principles are relevant here – Jensen’s Diamond and Ostaszewski’s Club are here augmented by a third, No Trumps, NT, a common generalization of the Baire and measurable cases.