List of properties of sets of reals
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This page lists some properties of sets of real number
Real number
In mathematics, a real number is a value that represents a quantity along a continuum, such as -5 , 4/3 , 8.6 , √2 and π...

s. The general study of these concepts forms descriptive set theory
Descriptive set theory
In mathematical logic, descriptive set theory is the study of certain classes of "well-behaved" subsets of the real line and other Polish spaces...

, which has a rather different emphasis from general topology
General topology
In mathematics, general topology or point-set topology is the branch of topology which studies properties of topological spaces and structures defined on them...

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Definability properties

  • Borel set
    Borel set
    In mathematics, a Borel set is any set in a topological space that can be formed from open sets through the operations of countable union, countable intersection, and relative complement...

     
  • Analytic set
    Analytic set
    In descriptive set theory, a subset of a Polish space X is an analytic set if it is a continuous image of a Polish space. These sets were first defined by and his student .- Definition :There are several equivalent definitions of analytic set...

     
  • C-measurable set 
  • Projective set 
  • Inductive set
    Inductive set
    In descriptive set theory, an inductive set of real numbers is one that can be defined as the least fixed point of a monotone operation definable by a positive Σ1n formula, for some natural number n, together with a real parameter.The inductive sets form a boldface pointclass; that is, they...

     
  • Infinity-Borel set
    Infinity-Borel set
    In set theory, a subset of a Polish space X is ∞-Borel if itcan be obtained by starting with the open subsets of X, and transfinitely iterating the operations of complementation and wellordered union...

     
  • Suslin set
    Suslin set
    The concept of a Suslin set was first used by Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin when he was researching the properties of projections of Borel sets in \R^2 onto the real axis...

     
  • Homogeneously Suslin set
    Homogeneously Suslin set
    In descriptive set theory, a set S is said to be homogeneously Suslin if it is the projection of a homogeneous tree. S is said to be \kappa-homogeneously Suslin if it is the projection of a \kappa-homogeneous tree....

     
  • Weakly homogeneously Suslin set 

Regularity properties

  • Property of Baire 
  • Lebesgue measurable 
  • Universally measurable set
    Universally measurable set
    In mathematics, a subset A of a Polish space X is universally measurable if it is measurable with respect to every complete probability measure on X that measures all Borel subsets of X. In particular, a universally measurable set of reals is necessarily Lebesgue measurable below.Every analytic...

     
  • Perfect set property
    Perfect set property
    In descriptive set theory, a subset of a Polish space has the perfect set property if it is either countable or has a nonempty perfect subset...

     
  • Universally Baire set
    Universally Baire set
    In the mathematical field of descriptive set theory, a set of reals is called universally Baire if it has a certain strong regularity property. Universally Baire sets play an important role in Ω-logic, a very strong logical system invented by W...

     

Largeness and smallness properties

  • Meager set 
  • Comeager set - A comeager set is one whose complement is meager.
  • Null set
    Null set
    In mathematics, a null set is a set that is negligible in some sense. For different applications, the meaning of "negligible" varies. In measure theory, any set of measure 0 is called a null set...

     
  • Conull set
    Conull set
    In measure theory, a conull set is a set whose complement is null, i.e., the measure of the complement is zero. For example, the set of irrational numbers is a conull subset of the real line with Lebesgue measure.See also:*Almost everywhere...

     
  • Dense set
    Dense set
    In topology and related areas of mathematics, a subset A of a topological space X is called dense if any point x in X belongs to A or is a limit point of A...

     
  • Nowhere dense set
    Nowhere dense set
    In mathematics, a nowhere dense set in a topological space is a set whose closure has empty interior. The order of operations is important. For example, the set of rational numbers, as a subset of R has the property that the closure of the interior is empty, but it is not nowhere dense; in fact it...

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