Is the Lebesgue measure of a closed set with empty interior in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ always zero?
Trying to understand something in the math notes that I don't understand, and if the above is true, it would make more sense. Not sure if true though!
Is the Lebesgue measure of a closed set with empty interior in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ always zero?
Trying to understand something in the math notes that I don't understand, and if the above is true, it would make more sense. Not sure if true though!
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No. For example Cantor-like set, they are closed and nowhere dense, but they can have any measure in $(0,1)$.
You can just take
$$ U =\bigcup_n B_{1/2^n}(x_n), $$
where $(x_n)_n$ is an enumeration of $\Bbb{Q}$.
Then $U$ is open an of finite measure, so that $A=U^c$ is closed and of positive (infinite) measure.
But the interior of $A$ is void, because it contains no point of $\Bbb{Q}$.
This example avoids having to understand the construction of the Cantor set.