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formulations using nested differences and increasing unions require their own equivalence justification. [Oxford definition](https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid%3A743530c5-135f-4a16-b127-18a72939462a/files/d2r36tz46z)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which reference supplies the adopted definition and terminology?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "lambda-system-convention-q01" }, { "text": "If another axiom formulation is used, what proves its equivalence over the same Ω?", "kind": "definition", "id": "lambda-system-convention-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "closure-verification", "name": "Closure verification", "description": "Establish the defining properties with proofs or failure witnesses.", "rationale": "A candidate family must satisfy all defining axioms before an agent may invoke Dynkin-system results.", "layers": [ { "id": "universe-and-complements", "name": "Universe and complements", "description": "Check the distinguished member and relative-complement operation.", "findings": [ { "id": "universe-complement-obligations", "name": "Universe and complement obligations", "description": "Verify Ω ∈ D and A ∈ D implies Ω \\ A ∈ D; together these also give ∅ ∈ D.", "questions": [ { "text": "What establishes Ω ∈ D?", "kind": "definition", "id": "universe-complement-obligations-q01" }, { "text": "What general argument proves complement closure, or which member has a complement outside D?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "universe-complement-obligations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "disjoint-countable-unions", "name": "Disjoint countable unions", "description": "Check union closure with its exact disjointness and countability conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "disjoint-sequence-obligation", "name": "Disjoint sequence obligation", "description": "For every sequence of pairwise-disjoint members, establish that its union belongs to D; finitely many successful examples do not establish this universal claim.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are membership and pairwise disjointness established for the sequence under consideration?", "kind": "definition", "id": "disjoint-sequence-obligation-q01" }, { "text": "What proves closure for every such sequence, or supplies a sequence whose union fails membership?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "disjoint-sequence-obligation-q02" }, { "text": "If checking a finite presentation exhaustively, why does the check cover the countable-union obligation?", "kind": "action", "id": "disjoint-sequence-obligation-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "derived-operations-and-boundaries", "name": "Derived operations and boundaries", "description": "Separate operations licensed by the axioms from stronger closure assumptions.", "rationale": "The common error is to reason with a Dynkin system as though arbitrary intersections and unions were already available.", "layers": [ { "id": "licensed-set-operations", "name": "Licensed set operations", "description": "Track deductions that follow without assuming sigma-algebra structure.", "findings": [ { "id": "nested-differences-and-monotone-limits", "name": "Nested differences and monotone limits", "description": "A Dynkin system supports A \\ B when B ⊆ A are members, increasing countable unions, and decreasing countable intersections. Nested differences enable the disjoint decomposition used for increasing unions.", "questions": [ { "text": "For a proposed difference A \\ B, are both sets members and is B ⊆ A established?", "kind": "action", "id": "nested-differences-and-monotone-limits-q01" }, { "text": "For a proposed limit operation, is the sequence increasing or decreasing as required?", "kind": "action", "id": "nested-differences-and-monotone-limits-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stronger-closure-boundary", "name": "Stronger closure boundary", "description": "Determine whether this instance has closure beyond the Dynkin axioms.", "findings": [ { "id": "intersection-witness-or-proof", "name": "Intersection witness or proof", "description": "Record either a proof of binary-intersection closure or a witness against it. For example, on Ω = {1,2,3,4}, the family consisting of ∅, Ω, and all two-element subsets is a Dynkin system but excludes {1,2} ∩ {1,3} = {1}.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can binary-intersection closure be proved for this D, or can two members with an excluded intersection be exhibited?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intersection-witness-or-proof-q01" }, { "text": "Does a proposed overlapping union rely on an extra property that has actually been established?", "kind": "action", "id": "intersection-witness-or-proof-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "generation-and-pi-lambda-extension", "name": "Generation and pi-lambda extension", "description": "Represent the smallest closed family and the hypotheses that identify it with a generated sigma-algebra.", "rationale": "Containing a generating family and being the family it generates are different claims with different proof obligations.", "layers": [ { "id": "minimal-dynkin-closure", "name": "Minimal Dynkin closure", "description": "Record λ(C) and establish its minimality.", "findings": [ { "id": "generated-family-characterisation", "name": "Generated family characterisation", "description": "For C ⊆ P(Ω), λ(C) is the intersection of all Dynkin systems on Ω containing C. 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