Characterization of measurable functions from cocountable sigma algebra

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Suppose $X$ is a nonempty set and $S$ is the sigma-algebra on $X$ consisting of all subsets of $X$ that are either countable or have a countable complement in $X$. Give a characterization of $S$ measurable real-valued functions on X.


I have been thinking about this problem and reached the conclusion that a function $f:X \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is $S$ measurable if and only if $f$ is constant except in a countable number of values. Here is my proof.

$( \rightarrow )$

$\forall a \in \mathbb{R}$ $f^{-1}((a, \infty)) \in S$ this means that $f^{-1}((a, \infty))$ is countable or $f^{-1}((-\infty, a])$ is countable, because

$$f^{-1}((-\infty, a]) = f^{-1}(\mathbb{R} \setminus (a, \infty)) = X \setminus f^{-1}((a, \infty))$$

Now we can consider $$c = \inf \{a \in \mathbb{R}: f^{-1}((a, \infty)) \quad \text{is countable} \}$$
$$b = \sup \{a \in \mathbb{R}: f^{-1}((-\infty, a]) \quad \text{is countable} \}$$

If the sets of the set of the infimum is not bounded it means that $X$ is countable and theres nothing more to do (likewise for the supremum).

In another case, if $b < c$ then there is a $d \in \mathbb{R}$ such that $b < d < c$. In this case $f^{-1}((d, \infty))$ and $f^{-1}((-\infty ,d))$ are both uncountable, so we conclude that $b = c$. This means that $f$ is equal to $b$ or $c$ except in countable many values.

$(\leftarrow)$

Suppose $z \in \mathbb{R}$ is the constant value of the image of most of the function except in countable many values.

Consider $f^{-1}((a, \infty)$, then if $z \leq a$ we have that $f^{-1}((a, \infty)$ is countable.

On the other hand if $z \gt a$, then the complement of $f^{-1}((a, \infty)$ is countable, because $X \setminus f^{-1}((a, \infty)) = f^{-1}((-\infty, a))$.


Is this correct? Any suggestions?