Helper for Theorem 8.3: every rational number fails a fixed-exponent Diophantine lower bound with a strictly positive constant.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: negating the fixed-exponent Diophantine lower-bound is equivalent to saying that every positive constant is violated by some rational approximation.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: if τ ≤ τ', then the complement of the τ'-Diophantine
set is contained in the complement of the τ-Diophantine set.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: the complement-measure is antitone with respect to the Diophantine exponent.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: if a fixed exponent τ > 1 Diophantine lower bound holds
Lebesgue-almost everywhere, then IsDiophantineReal also holds almost everywhere.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: an almost-everywhere fixed-exponent bound with τ > 1
forces the complement of IsDiophantineReal to have Lebesgue measure zero.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: a full-measure fixed-exponent Diophantine pair with τ > 1
implies that IsDiophantineReal holds almost everywhere.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: a full-measure fixed-exponent Diophantine pair with τ > 1
forces the non-diophantine set to have measure zero.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: at exponent τ = 2, the origin fails the fixed-exponent
Diophantine lower bound.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: at exponent τ = 2, the complement of the fixed-exponent
Diophantine set is nonempty.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: a full-measure fixed-exponent pair at τ = 2 implies
IsDiophantineReal almost everywhere.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: a full-measure fixed-exponent pair at τ = 2 forces
the non-diophantine set to have Lebesgue measure zero.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: at τ = 2, a full-measure fixed-exponent pair yields
both almost-everywhere IsDiophantineReal and measure-zero non-diophantine complement.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: any universal fixed-exponent full-measure claim for
all τ > 1 specializes to the case τ = 2.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: a universal fixed-exponent full-measure claim would
imply IsDiophantineReal almost everywhere by specializing to τ = 2.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: a universal fixed-exponent full-measure claim would force the non-diophantine set to have Lebesgue measure zero.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: a universal fixed-exponent full-measure claim yields both
almost-everywhere IsDiophantineReal and measure-zero non-diophantine complement.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: once the fixed-exponent complement has measure zero, one
gets both the almost-everywhere exponent-τ bound and almost-everywhere
IsDiophantineReal (for τ > 1).
Helper for Theorem 8.3: for a fixed exponent τ > 1, the theorem's target
full-measure pair follows from the null-complement statement.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: for a fixed exponent τ > 1, proving the theorem's
target pair is equivalent to proving the null-complement statement.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: from a fixed exponent τ > 1 null-complement statement,
one obtains both the theorem's target full-measure pair and almost-everywhere
IsDiophantineReal.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: for τ > 1, augmenting the theorem's target pair with the
derived almost-everywhere IsDiophantineReal consequence is equivalent to the target
pair itself.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: for a fixed exponent τ > 1, the theorem's target pair
implies both almost-everywhere IsDiophantineReal and measure-zero
non-IsDiophantineReal complement.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: a nonrational real has a uniform positive lower bound for
|x - p/q| against all integers p and all positive denominators q ≤ N; with
τ ≥ 0, this yields a bound of the form c / q^τ.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: for nonrational x and nonnegative exponent τ, failure of
the fixed-exponent Diophantine lower bound implies LiouvilleWith τ x.
Helper for Theorem 8.3: the complement of the fixed-exponent Diophantine set is contained in the union of the embedded rationals and the fixed-exponent Liouville set (for nonnegative exponent).
Helper for Theorem 8.3: for τ > 2, the complement of the fixed-exponent
Diophantine set has Lebesgue measure zero.
Theorem 8.3: if τ > 2, then the set of real numbers x for which there exists
c(x) > 0 such that |x - p/q| ≥ c(x) / q^τ for all p ∈ ℤ and q ∈ ℕ with q > 0
has full Lebesgue measure; equivalently, this Diophantine bound holds for
Lebesgue-almost every real x.
Helper for Proposition 8.7: Markov/Chebyshev gives the superlevel-set measure bound
m({x | 2^{-(n+1)} ≤ f_{n+1}(x)}) ≤ 2^{-(n+1)}.
Helper for Proposition 8.7: the limsup of superlevel sets has Lebesgue measure zero.
Helper for Proposition 8.7: outside the limsup superlevel set, one eventually has the
pointwise bound f_{n+1}(x) ≤ 2^{-(n+1)}.
Helper for Proposition 8.7: an eventual geometric bound on the shifted sequence implies
f_n(x) → 0.
Proposition 8.7: if (f_n)_{n ≥ 1} are nonnegative Lebesgue measurable functions
on ℝ with ∫⁻ f_n dm ≤ 4^{-n} for all n ≥ 1, then for every ε > 0 there exists
a Lebesgue measurable set E with m(E) ≤ ε such that f_n x → 0 for all
x ∈ ℝ \ E.
Helper for Theorem 8.4: measurable functions on [0,1] are strongly measurable.
Helper for Theorem 8.4: pointwise convergence to zero implies almost-everywhere
convergence to the zero function on [0,1].
Helper for Theorem 8.4: Egorov's theorem on the finite-measure space [0,1].
Theorem 8.4 (Egoroff on [0,1]): if (f_n) are measurable and nonnegative on
[0,1] and satisfy f_n(x) → 0 for every x ∈ [0,1], then for every ε > 0 there
exists a measurable E ⊆ [0,1] with m(E) ≤ ε such that f_n → 0 uniformly on
[0,1] \ E.
Helper for Proposition 8.8: each fixed column converges pointwise to 0.
Helper for Proposition 8.8: the row sums converge to 1.
Proposition 8.8: there exists a bounded function f : ℕ × ℕ → ℝ≥0 such that
(i) for every n, the series ∑_{m=1}^∞ f(n,m) converges;
(ii) for every m, the limit lim_{n→∞} f(n,m) exists;
(iii) nevertheless, the limit of row sums is not equal to the sum of pointwise limits.