Paper 2, Section II,
Let be a set. Recall that a Boolean algebra of subsets of is a family of subsets containing the empty set, which is stable under finite union and under taking complements. As usual, let be the -algebra generated by .
(a) State the definitions of a -algebra, that of a measure on a measurable space, as well as the definition of a probability measure.
(b) State Carathéodory's extension theorem.
(c) Let be a probability measure space. Let be a Boolean algebra of subsets of . Let be the family of all with the property that for every , there is such that
where denotes the symmetric difference of and , i.e., .
(i) Show that is contained in . Show by example that this may fail if .
(ii) Now assume that , where is the -algebra of Lebesgue measurable subsets of and is the Lebesgue measure. Let be the family of all finite unions of sub-intervals. Is it true that is equal to in this case? Justify your answer.