a Lebesgue measurable but non-Borel set
We give an example of a subset of the real numbers which is Lebesgue measurable, but not Borel measurable.
Let consist of the set of all irrational real numbers with continued fraction![]()
of the form
such that there exists an infinite![]()
sequence
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where each divides .It can be shown that this set is Lebesgue measurable, but not Borel measurable.
In fact, it can be shown that is an analytic set![]()
(http://planetmath.org/AnalyticSet2), meaning that it is the image of a continuous function
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for some Polish space
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and, consequently, is a universally measurable set.
This example is due to Lusin (1927).