On strictly nonzero integer-valued charges
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Abstract:
A charge (finitely additive measure) defined on a Boolean algebra of sets taking values in a group $G$ is called a strictly nonzero (SNZ) charge if it takes the identity value in $G$ only for the zero element of the Boolean algebra. A study of such charges was initiated by Rüdiger Göbel and K. P. S. Bhaskara Rao in 2002.
Our main result is a solution to one of the questions posed in that paper: we show that for every cardinal $\aleph$, the Boolean algebra of clopen sets of $\{0,1\}^\aleph$ has a strictly nonzero integer-valued charge. The key lemma that we prove is that there exists a strictly nonzero integer-valued permutation-invariant charge on the Boolean algebra of clopen sets of $\{0,1\}^{\aleph _0}$. Our proof is based on linear-algebraic arguments, as well as certain kinds of polynomial approximations of binomial coefficients.
We also show that there is no integer-valued SNZ charge on ${\mathcal {P}}(\mathbb {N})$. Finally, we raise some interesting problems on integer-valued SNZ charges.
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Additional Information
- Swastik Kopparty
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics & Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
- MR Author ID: 767963
- Email: swastik@math.rutgers.edu
- K. P. S. Bhaskara Rao
- Affiliation: Department of Computer Information Systems, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, Indiana 46408
- MR Author ID: 209993
- Email: bkoppart@iun.edu
- Received by editor(s): August 8, 2016
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 28, 2016
- Published electronically: May 24, 2018
- Additional Notes: The first author was supported in part by a Sloan Fellowship and NSF grants CCF-1253886 and CCF-1540634.
- Communicated by: Mirna Dz̆amonja
- © Copyright 2018 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 146 (2018), 3777-3789
- MSC (2010): Primary 28B10, 03E05
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/13700
- MathSciNet review: 3825833
Dedicated: Dedicated to the memory of Rüdiger Göbel