Paradoxical characterization of Lebesgue nonmeasurable sets
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1Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland.
Heliyon
|September 5, 2020
Abstract:
We show that a set is nonmeasurable in the sense of Lebesgue if and only if it has a common density point with its complement . Moreover, if there exists a density point of both A and , then the set of such points has a positive Lebesgue measure.
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