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The Hausdorff measure of the intersection of sets of positive Lebesgue measure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

P. Erdös
Affiliation:
University College, London.
S. J. Taylor
Affiliation:
Westfield College, London.
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Erdös, Kestelman and Rogers [1[ showed that, if A1, A2,… is any sequence of Lebesgue measurable subsets of the unit interval [0, 1] each of Lebesgue measure at least η > 0, then there is a subsequence {Ani} (i = 1, 2,…) such that the intersection contains a perfect subset (and is therefore of power ). They asked for what Hausdorff measure functions φ(t) is it possible to choose the subsequence to make the intersection set ∩Ani of positive φ-measure. In the present note we show that the strongest possible result in this direction is true. This is given by the following theorem.

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Copyright © University College London 1963

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