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Version of 21.8.15 Chapter 43 Topologies and Measures II The
Version of 21.8.15 Chapter 43 Topologies and measures II The first chapter of this volume was ‘general’ theory of topological measure spaces; I attempted to distinguish the most important properties a topological measure can have – inner regularity, τ-additivity – and describe their interactions at an abstract level. I now turn to rather more specialized investigations, looking for features which offer explanations of the behaviour of the most important spaces, radiating outwards from Lebesgue measure. In effect, this chapter consists of three distinguishable parts and two appendices. The first three sections are based on ideas from descriptive set theory, in particular Souslin’s operation (§431); the properties of this operation are the foundation for the theory of two classes of topological space of particular importance in measure theory, the K-analytic spaces (§432) and the analytic spaces (§433). The second part of the chapter, §§434-435, collects miscellaneous results on Borel and Baire measures, looking at the ways in which topological properties of a space determine properties of the measures it carries. In §436 I present the most important theorems on the representation of linear functionals by integrals; if you like, this is the inverse operation to the construction of integrals from measures in §122. The ideas continue into §437, where I discuss spaces of signed measures representing the duals of spaces of continuous functions, and topologies on spaces of measures. The first appendix, §438, looks at a special topic: the way in which the patterns in §§434-435 are affected if we assume that our spaces are not unreasonably complex in a rather special sense defined in terms of measures on discrete spaces. -
1 Sets and Classes
Prerequisites Topological spaces. A set E in a space X is σ-compact if there exists a S1 sequence of compact sets such that E = n=1 Cn. A space X is locally compact if every point of X has a neighborhood whose closure is compact. A subset E of a locally compact space is bounded if there exists a compact set C such that E ⊂ C. Topological groups. The set xE [or Ex] is called a left translation [or right translation.] If Y is a subgroup of X, the sets xY and Y x are called (left and right) cosets of Y . A topological group is a group X which is a Hausdorff space such that the transformation (from X ×X onto X) which sends (x; y) into x−1y is continuous. A class N of open sets containing e in a topological group is a base at e if (a) for every x different form e there exists a set U in N such that x2 = U, (b) for any two sets U and V in N there exists a set W in N such that W ⊂ U \ V , (c) for any set U 2 N there exists a set W 2 N such that V −1V ⊂ U, (d) for any set U 2 N and any element x 2 X, there exists a set V 2 N such that V ⊂ xUx−1, and (e) for any set U 2 N there exists a set V 2 N such that V x ⊂ U. If N is a satisfies the conditions described above, and if the class of all translation of sets of N is taken for a base, then, with respect to the topology so defined, X becomes a topological group. -
Borel Extensions of Baire Measures
FUNDAMENTA MATHEMATICAE 154 (1997) Borel extensions of Baire measures by J. M. A l d a z (Madrid) Abstract. We show that in a countably metacompact space, if a Baire measure admits a Borel extension, then it admits a regular Borel extension. We also prove that under the special axiom ♣ there is a Dowker space which is quasi-Maˇr´ıkbut not Maˇr´ık,answering a question of H. Ohta and K. Tamano, and under P (c), that there is a Maˇr´ıkDowker space, answering a question of W. Adamski. We answer further questions of H. Ohta and K. Tamano by showing that the union of a Maˇr´ıkspace and a compact space is Maˇr´ık,that under “c is real-valued measurable”, a Baire subset of a Maˇr´ıkspace need not be Maˇr´ık, and finally, that the preimage of a Maˇr´ıkspace under an open perfect map is Maˇr´ık. 1. Introduction. The Borel sets are the σ-algebra generated by the open sets of a topological space, and the Baire sets are the smallest σ- algebra making all real-valued continuous functions measurable. The Borel extension problem asks: Given a Baire measure, when can it be extended to a Borel measure? Whenever one deals with Baire measures on a topological space, it is assumed that the space is completely regular and Hausdorff, so there are enough continuous functions to separate points and closed sets. In 1957 (see [Ma]), J. Maˇr´ıkproved that all normal, countably paracompact spaces have the following property: Every Baire measure extends to a regular Borel measure. -
On Measure-Compactness and Borel Measure-Compactness
CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Osaka City University Repository Okada, S. and Okazaki, Y. Osaka J. Math. 15 (1978), 183-191 ON MEASURE-COMPACTNESS AND BOREL MEASURE-COMPACTNESS SUSUMU OKADA AND YOSHIAKI OKAZAKI (Received December 6, 1976) 1. Introduction Moran has introduced "measure-compactness' and "strongly measure- compactness' in [7], [8], For measure-compactness, Kirk has independently presented in [4]. For Borel measures, "Borel measure-compactness' and "property B" are introduced by Gardner [1], We study, defining "a weak Radon space", the relation among these proper- ties at the last of §2. Furthermore we investigate the stability of countable unions in §3 and the hereditariness in §4. The authors wish to thank Professor Y. Yamasaki for his suggestions. 2. Preliminaries and fundamental results All spaces considered in this paper are completely regular and Hausdorff. Let Cb(X) be the space of all bounded real-valued continuous functions on a topological space X. By Z(X] we mean the family of zero sets {/" \0) / e Cb(X)} c and U(X) the family of cozero sets {Z \ Z<=Z(X)}. We denote by &a(X) the Baίre field, that is, the smallest σ-algebra containing Z(X) and by 1$(X) the σ-algebra generated by all open subsets of X, which is called the Borel field. A Baire measure [resp. Borel measure} is a totally finite, non-negative coun- tably additive set function defined on Άa(X) [resp. 3)(X)]. For a Baire measure μ, the support of μ is supp μ = {x^Xm, μ(U)>0 for every U^ U(X) containing x} . -
Lebesgue Integration Theory: Part I
Part V Lebesgue Integration Theory 17 Introduction: What are measures and why “measurable” sets Definition 17.1 (Preliminary). A measure µ “on” a set X is a function µ :2X [0, ] such that → ∞ 1. µ( )=0 ∅ N 2. If Ai is a finite (N< ) or countable (N = ) collection of subsets { }i=1 ∞ ∞ of X which are pair-wise disjoint (i.e. Ai Aj = if i = j) then ∩ ∅ 6 N N µ( Ai)= µ(Ai). ∪i=1 i=1 X Example 17.2. Suppose that X is any set and x X is a point. For A X, let ∈ ⊂ 1 if x A δ (A)= x 0 if x/∈ A. ½ ∈ Then µ = δx is a measure on X called the Dirac delta measure at x. Example 17.3. Suppose that µ is a measure on X and λ>0, then λ µ · is also a measure on X. Moreover, if µα α J are all measures on X, then { } ∈ µ = α J µα, i.e. ∈ P µ(A)= µα(A) for all A X ⊂ α J X∈ is a measure on X. (See Section 2 for the meaning of this sum.) To prove this we must show that µ is countably additive. Suppose that Ai i∞=1 is a collection of pair-wise disjoint subsets of X, then { } ∞ ∞ µ( ∞ Ai)= µ(Ai)= µα(Ai) ∪i=1 i=1 i=1 α J X X X∈ ∞ = µα(Ai)= µα( ∞ Ai) ∪i=1 α J i=1 α J X∈ X X∈ = µ( ∞ Ai) ∪i=1 246 17 Introduction: What are measures and why “measurable” sets wherein the third equality we used Theorem 4.22 and in the fourth we used that fact that µα is a measure. -
Invariant Measures for the Horocycle Flow on Periodic Hyperbolic Surfaces
INVARIANT MEASURES FOR THE HOROCYCLE FLOW ON PERIODIC HYPERBOLIC SURFACES FRANC¸OIS LEDRAPPIER AND OMRI SARIG Pour Martine Abstract. We classify the ergodic invariant Radon measures for the horocycle flow on geometrically infinite regular covers of compact hyperbolic surfaces. The method is to establish a bijection between these measures and the positive minimal eigenfunctions of the laplacian of the surface. Two consequences: if the group of deck transformations G is of polynomial growth, then these measures are classified by the homomorphisms from G0 to R where G0 ≤ G is a nilpotent subgroup of finite index; if the group is of exponential growth, then there may be more than one Radon measure which is invariant under the geodesic flow and the horocycle flow. We also treat regular covers of finite volume surfaces. 1. Introduction Let M be a hyperbolic surface and T 1(M) its unit tangent bundle. The geodesic flow is the flow gs : T 1(M) → T 1(M) which moves a line element at unit speed along the geodesic it determines. The (stable) horocycle at a line element ω is the geometric location of all ω0 ∈ T 1(M) for which d(gsω, gsω0) −−−→ 0. This s→∞ is a smooth curve. The (stable) horocycle flow ht : T 1(M) → T 1(M) moves line elements along the stable horocycle they determine, in the positive direction. A famous theorem of Furstenberg [F] says that if M is compact, then h has a unique invariant probability measure. Variants of this phenomena have been established for more general geometrically finite hyperbolic surfaces by Dani [D] and Burger [Bu], for compact Riemannian surfaces of variable negative curvature by Marcus [Mrc], and for more general actions by Ratner [Rat]. -
Category-Measure Duality: Convexity, Mid- Point Convexity and Berz Sublinearity
N. H. Bingham, A. J. Ostaszewski Category-measure duality: convexity, mid- point convexity and Berz sublinearity Article (Published version) (Refereed) Original citation: Bingham, N. H. and Ostaszewski, Adam (2017) Category-measure duality: convexity, mid-point convexity and Berz sublinearity. Aequationes Mathematicae. ISSN 0001-9054 DOI: 10.1007/s00010-017-0486-7 Reuse of this item is permitted through licensing under the Creative Commons: © 2017 The Authors CC BY 4.0 This version available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/68940/ Available in LSE Research Online: July 2017 LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. You may freely distribute the URL (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk) of the LSE Research Online website. Aequat. Math. c The Author(s) 2017. This article is an open access publication Aequationes Mathematicae DOI 10.1007/s00010-017-0486-7 Category-measure duality: convexity, midpoint convexity and Berz sublinearity N. H. Bingham and A. J. Ostaszewski Abstract. Category-measure duality concerns applications of Baire-category methods that have measure-theoretic analogues. The set-theoretic axiom needed in connection with the Baire category theorem is the Axiom of Dependent Choice, DC rather than the Axiom of Choice, AC. Berz used the Hahn–Banach theorem over Q to prove that the graph of a measurable sublinear function that is Q+-homogeneous consists of two half-lines through the origin. We give a category form of the Berz theorem. -
The Strict Topology in a Completely Regular Setting: Relations to Topological Measure Theory
Can. J. Math., Vol. XXIV, No. 5, 1972, pp. 873-890 THE STRICT TOPOLOGY IN A COMPLETELY REGULAR SETTING: RELATIONS TO TOPOLOGICAL MEASURE THEORY STEVEN E. MOSIMAN AND ROBERT F. WHEELER 1. Introduction. Let X be a locally compact Hausdorff space, and let C*(X) denote the space of real-valued bounded continuous functions on X. An interesting and important property of the strict topology /3 on C*(X) was proved by Buck [2]: the dual space of (C*(X), 13) has a natural representation as the space of bounded regular Borel measures on X. Now suppose that X is completely regular (all topological spaces are assumed to be Hausdorff in this paper). Again it seems natural to seek locally convex topologies on the space C*(X) whose dual spaces are (via the integration pairing) significant classes of measures. Motivated by this idea, Sentilles [24] has considered locally convex topologies /30, 0, and fii on C*(X) which yield as dual spaces the tight, r-additive, and cr-additive Baire measures of Vara- darajan [30]. If X is locally compact, the topologies /30 and fi coincide and are precisely the original strict topology of Buck. The topology /30 on C*(X) has an intuitively appealing description: it is the finest locally convex topology which, when restricted to sets bounded in the supremum norm, coincides with the compact-open topology. However, it is defective with respect to a desirable property of the dual space: a weak*- compact set of tight measures need not be /30-equicontinuous. This bears on a question posed by Buck in the locally compact setting: when is (C*(X),/3) a Mackey space? A partial answer can be found in the work of LeCam [15] and, independently, Conway [4]: if X is cr-compact locally compact, then (C*(X), /3) is a strong Mackey space (i.e., weak*-compact subsets of the dual space are /3-equicon- tinuous). -
Invariant Measures in Groups Which Are Not Locally Compact
INVARIANT MEASURES IN GROUPS WHICH ARE NOT LOCALLY COMPACT BY JOHN C. OXTOBY 1. Introduction. The problem of measure in groups is the problem of de- fining a left-invariant measure, with specified properties, in a given group. It is a special case of the general problem of defining a measure in a set with a given congruence relation (l). In a topological group it is natural to require that the measure be defined at least for all Borel sets, and therefore to con- sider Borel measures. By a Borel measure we understand a countably addi- tive non-negative set function defined for all (and only for) Borel sets. It may assume the value + oo but is required to be finite and positive for at least one set. In addition, we require always that points have measure zero. A Borel measure mina group G is left-invariant if m(xA) =m(A) for every Borel set A C.G and every element #£G. The present paper is devoted to a study of the existence and possible properties of such measures. In locally compact separable groups the problem of measure, with the added requirement that the measure be locally finite, was solved by Haar [7], as is well known. Moreover, Haar's measure is unique in the sense that (ex- cept for a constant factor) it is the only locally finite left-invariant Borel measure in such a group (see von Neumann [17]). However, a great variety of measures which are not locally finite always exist, as we shall see. The present paper contains a solution of the problem of measure in com- plete separable metric groups. -
In Search of a Lebesgue Density Theorem for R^\Infty
In search of a Lebesgue density theorem for R∞ Verne Cazaubon A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Mathematics 1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics arXiv:0810.4894v1 [math.CA] 27 Oct 2008 Faculty of Science University of Ottawa c Verne Cazaubon, Ottawa, Canada, 2008 1The M.Sc. program is a joint program with Carleton University, administered by the Ottawa- Carleton Institute of Mathematics and Statistics Abstract We look at a measure, λ∞, on the infinite-dimensional space, R∞, for which we at- tempt to put forth an analogue of the Lebesgue density theorem. Although this measure allows us to find partial results, for example for continuous functions, we prove that it is impossible to give an analogous theorem in full generality. In partic- ular, we proved that the Lebesgue density of probability density functions on R∞ is zero almost everywhere. ii Acknowledgements There are many people that I would like to thank for helping me get through these two years from September 2006 to October 2008. First and foremost, I thank God. Without Him I would not have had the patience or strength to get through this work. He has guided me at every step and made sure that the burden was never more than I could handle. I am tremendously grateful to the Canadian Government and in particular the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) for choosing me to receive a two year full scholarship to attend an institute of my choice in Canada. -
ON MEASURES in FIBRE SPACES by Anthony Karel SEDA
CAHIERS DE TOPOLOGIE ET GÉOMÉTRIE DIFFÉRENTIELLE CATÉGORIQUES ANTHONY KAREL SEDA On measures in fibre spaces Cahiers de topologie et géométrie différentielle catégoriques, tome 21, no 3 (1980), p. 247-276 <http://www.numdam.org/item?id=CTGDC_1980__21_3_247_0> © Andrée C. Ehresmann et les auteurs, 1980, tous droits réservés. L’accès aux archives de la revue « Cahiers de topologie et géométrie différentielle catégoriques » implique l’accord avec les conditions générales d’utilisation (http://www.numdam.org/conditions). Toute utilisation commerciale ou impression systématique est constitutive d’une infraction pénale. Toute copie ou impression de ce fichier doit contenir la présente mention de copyright. Article numérisé dans le cadre du programme Numérisation de documents anciens mathématiques http://www.numdam.org/ CAHIERS DE TOPOLOGIE Vol. XXI - 3 (1980) ET GEOMETRIE DIFFERENTIELLE ON MEASURES IN FIBRE SPACES by Anthony Karel SEDA INTRODUCTION. Let S and X be locally compact Hausdorff spaces and let p : S - X be a continuous surjective function, hereinafter referred to as a fibre space with projection p, total space S and base space X . Such spaces are com- monly regarded as broad generalizations of product spaces X X Y fibred over X by the projection on the first factor. However, in practice this level of generality is too great and one places compatibility conditions on the f ibres of S such as : the fibres of S are all to be homeomorphic ; p is to be a fibration or 6tale map; S is to be locally trivial, and so on. In this paper fibre spaces will be viewed as generalized transformation groups, and the specific compatibility requirement will be that S is provided with a categ- ory or groupoid G of operators. -
ABSOLUTE BAIRE SETS <P: X^T
ABSOLUTE BAIRE SETS stelios negrepontis 1. Introduction. Definitions and facts. For background in nota- tion and terminology the reader should consult [2]. We make here the blanket assumption that all spaces to be considered in this note are completely regular Hausdorff topological spaces. A continuous map/: X—>Fis called proper if /is onto, closed, con- tinuous, and if for every compact set K in Y,/"l(K) is compact. The family of Baire sets of a space X is the cr-field generated by the zero-sets of X. The family of Borel sets of a space X is the cr-field generated by the closed sets of X. For a metric space the two families coincide, but in general the family of Borel sets properly contains the family of Baire sets. A subset A of a space X is said to be C*-embedded in X if every real-valued continuous bounded function on A is the restriction of a real-valued continuous (bounded) function on X. Thus, for example, a space X is C*-embedded in its Stone-Cech compactification BX. 2. Absolute Baire spaces. We will now prove our first main result, which characterizes the spaces which are Baire sets in their Stone- Cech compactifications. The characterization, which uses the idea included in the proof of Theorem D, §51, of Halmos's text on mea- sure theory [2], is surprisingly simple. 2.1. Theorem. The /ollowing are equivalent on any space X: (1) X is Baire in BX (i.e. X is an "absolute Baire set"). (2) There is a separable metric space T which is an absolute Borel space (in the class 0/ separable metric spaces) and a proper mapping <p:X^T.