π-system

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π-system (plural π-systems)

  1. (set theory, measure theory, probability theory) A non-empty collection of subsets of a given set Ώ that is closed under non-empty finite intersections.
    • 2007, Rabi Bhattacharya, Edward C. Waymire, A Basic Course in Probability Theory, Springer, page 49:
      To see this, first check that , where is a field and, in particular, a -system.
    • 2017, Willem Adriaan de Graaf, Computation with Linear Algebraic Groups, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 221:
      We start with a basis of simple roots of . Then we apply all possible elementary transformations and add the resulting -systems to the list. Of course, if is a -system, and is a -system obtained from it by an elementary transformation and the diagrams of and are the same, the root subsystems they span are the same, and therefore we do not add .
    • 2021, Jeremy J. Becnel, Tools for Infinite Dimensional Analysis, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press):
      Clearly the definitions for a -system and a -system are both satisfied by a -algebra. []
      Proposition 4.1.8 Let be a set and be a collection of subsets of . The collection is a -algebra if and only if is a -system and a -system.

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  • By convention, the empty intersection (aka nullary intersection: the "intersection of no sets") is taken to be Ώ itself: its explicit exclusion means that Ώ need not be a member of any arbitrary π-system (i.e., of every π-system).
  • The system is said to be a π-system on Ώ.
  • For any family Σ of subsets of Ώ, there exists a unique smallest π-system that contains every element of Σ: it is called the π-system generated by Σ.

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