III: 06, 115-136, LNM 88 (1969)
DELLACHERIE, Claude
        Ensembles aléatoires II (
Descriptive set theory, 
Markov processes)
Among the many proofs that an uncountable Borel set of the line contains a perfect set, a proof of Sierpinski  (
Fund. Math., 
5, 1924) can be extended to an abstract set-up to show that a non-semi-polar Borel set  contains a non-semi-polar compact set
Comment: See Dellacherie, 
Capacités et  Processus Stochastiques, Springer 1972. More recent proofs no longer depend on ``rabotages'': Dellacherie-Meyer, 
Probabilités et potentiel, Appendix to Chapter IV
Keywords:  Sierpinski's ``rabotages'', 
Semi-polar setsNature:  Original Retrieve article from Numdam
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