We study the relationship between the Loeb measure °(*fi) of a set £ and the /?-measure of the set S(E) = [x\*x G E) of standard points in E. If E is in the a-algebra generated by the standard sets, then °(*f0(£) — piS(Ef). This is used to give a short nonstandard proof of Egoroffs Theorem. If £ is an internal, * measurable set, then in general there is no relationship between the measures of S(£) and E. However, if *X is an ultrapower constructed using a minimal ultrafilter on u, then *p(£) «i 0 implies that S(E) is a u-null set. If, in addition, y. is a Borel measure on a compact metric space and £ is a Loeb measurable set, then M(5(£)) R and /: X -» 7? is also a measurable function. Egoroffs Theorem [3] states 1.1 Egoroff's Theorem. 7/ S„ —* S pointwise almost everywhere then Sor every e > 0 there is a set A G R, and x G *X. Then x is said to be a point of intrinsic nonuniformity if there is an infinite integer v such that/,,(*) »*/(■*)• Let E denote the set of points of intrinsic nonuniformity. (Note: E is usually external.) 1.3 Definition. Suppose A is a (possibly external) subset of *X. A is said to have S-measure zero if for every standard e > 0 there is a standard set B G IS such that A G*B and y(B) ) [8, Theorem 4.6.1]. We need one more definition before proving Egoroffs Theorem. 1.5 Definition. Suppose A is a (possibly external) subset of *X. Let S(A) denote the set of all standard points in A. That is, S(A) = {x G X\*x G A). Note S(A) is just the standard part of A with respect to the discrete topology on X. 1.6 Proof of Egoroff's Theorem. Suppose/, —>/pointwise almost everywhere. Hence there is a set A G 6J such that y(A) = 0 and/„ -»/pointwise on X A. Let E denote the set of points of intrinsic nonuniformity. Then S(E) G A. Thus S(E) has measure zero and by II.3 E has S-measure zero, completing the proof by 1.4. II. The distribution of standard points in *X. The purpose of this section is to study the relationship between the measure (in a sense to be defined below) of a set E G*X and the standard measure of S(E). Intuitively, the standard points are evenly distributed in *X and one might, therefore, expect the measures of E and S(E) to be infinitely close for a reasonable class of sets E. II. 1 Definition. Let eE be the (external) algebra, & = {*A\A G k\Sr(x) *f(x) > I/«}Claim:
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