Measurability properties of certain paradoxical subsets of the real line

Abstract

AbstractThe paper deals with the measurability properties of some classical subsets of the real line ℝ having an extra-ordinary descriptive structure: Vitali sets, Bernstein sets, Hamel bases, Luzin sets and Sierpiński sets. In particular, it is shown that there exists a translation invariant measure μ on ℝ extending the Lebesgue measure and such that all Sierpiński sets are measurable with respect to μ.