[Math] What measure does Lebesgue measure induce on the fat Cantor set

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I know that the fat Cantor set under the subspace topology is homeomorphic to Cantor space $\{0,1\}^{\mathbb N}$ under the product topology induced by the discrete topology on $\{0,1\}$. Call the natural homeomorphism $f$.

What about the measure induced by Lebesgue measure on Cantor space via $f$? Is it the same (up to a constant) as the usual product measure, i.e. the probability measure used to describe an infinite sequence of coin tosses? A reference would be helpful.

Best Answer

Yes, it is.

Note that the Cantor set is in fact a compact group, and the product measure $\mu$ is the Haar measure, that is, the invariant finite, regular Borel measure, which is by Haar's theorem unique up to a scaling factor.

That Lebesgue measure restricted to the fat Cantor set is invariant is an easy exercise (it follows easily from the fact that the Lebesgue measure is translation invariant).

It is also regular, because it is a restriction of a regular measure, so by Haar's theorem it is a scalar multiple of the product measure.

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