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On terminology

The term "standard probability space" is used in [I]. The same, or very similar, notion appears also as: "Lebesgue space" [Ro], [Ru], [P], [G]; "standard Lebesgue space" [G]; "Lebesgue-Rohlin space" [H], [B]; and "L. R. space" [H].

Some authors admit totally finite (not necessarily probability) measures [P], [B]. Note also "standard σ-finite measure" in [Mac]. Some authors exclude spaces of cardinality higher than continuum ([Ro], [Ru], [G], but not [I], [H], [Mac], [P], [B]) even though such space can be almost isomorphic to $(0,1)$ with Lebesgue measure (since it can contain a null set of arbitrary cardinality). Also, some authors do not insist on completeness [B], [G].

Criticism

According to [Mal],

• a measure is called separable if the corresponding $L_1$ space is separable [Mal, Sect. IV.6.0];
• every separable complete nonatomic probability space is isomorphic to $[0,1]$ with Lebesgue measure [Mal, Sect. IV.6.4.2: "structure theorem (nonatomic case)"].

The proof provides a measure preserving map from the given space to $[0,1]$ that generates the given σ-algebra. However, such map is not necessarily an isomorphism. Its image must be of full outer measure, but not of full inner measure, which is a manifestation of the "image measure catastrophe" (see [KP, p. 94], [D, p. 1002]).

Further, in [Mal, Sect. IV.6.4.3: "structure theorem (general case)"] it is claimed that every separable (as defined there) complete probability space is standard (as defined here), which is wrong, of course.

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