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Measures not approximable or not specifiable by means of balls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Roy O. Davies
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Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester.
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Problem I was raised (oral communication) by Goffman some three years ago, and I found the example then. Problem II was raised at about the same time by Topsøe; Christensen has given an affirmative answer for spaces satisfying certain additional conditions.

It is easy to see that if the answer to problem I were affirmative then so would be that to problem II; therefore our counter-example for problem II implies the existence of one for problem I. It is also possible that another counter-example for problem I could be found by analysing the construction of Dieudonn6 in [1], which is also concerned (implicitly) with a failure of Vitali's theorem. Nevertheless our construction may be of independent interest.

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Copyright © University College London 1971

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