The Vitali Covering Theorem states that from any collection of balls covering a set, each ball small enough relative to its neighbors, a countable disjoint subcollection can be chosen that still covers almost all of the set, up to a set of measure zero. Named for Giuseppe Vitali, it is a basic tool of real analysis and measure theory, underlying the proof of the Lebesgue Differentiation Theorem and other covering-based arguments.
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StatementIt is possible to cover, up to a Lebesgue-negligible set, a given subset E of R^d by a disjoint family extracted from a Vitali covering of E. 1 Classification
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The theorem states that it is possible to cover, up to a Lebesgue-negligible set, a given subset E of Rd by a disjoint family extracted from a Vitali covering of E.
In Branch: Measure Theory, Lead sentence
mbinatorial and geometric result commonly used in measure theory of Euclidean spaces.
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