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Effectively closed sets of measures and randomness

Abstract

We show that if a real $x$ is strongly Hausdorff $h$-random, where $h$ is a dimension function corresponding to a convex order, then it is also random for a continuous probability measure $μ$ such that the $μ$-measure of the basic open cylinders shrinks according to $h$. The proof uses a new method to construct measures, based on effective (partial) continuous transformations and a basis theorem for $Π^0_1$-classes applied to closed sets of probability measures. We use the main result to give a new proof of Frostman's Lemma, to derive a collapse of randomness notions for Hausdorff measures, and to provide a characterization of effective Hausdorff dimension similar to Frostman's Theorem.

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Jan Reimann. 2008-04-16. Effectively closed sets of measures and randomness. https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2656

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