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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Lebesgue integral (was: Couple of questions
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.023801.12444@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 02:38:01 GMT
- References: <12tnxa#.kmc@netcom.com> <1992Sep11.130033.26063@watson.ibm.com> <1992Sep15.020445.26398@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- In article <1992Sep15.020445.26398@unixg.ubc.ca> ramsay@unixg.ubc.ca (Keith Ramsay) writes:
- >
- >I've heard that much (nearly all, perhaps) of what is done with L^2,
- >regarded as Lebesgue square-integrable functions, modulo functions
- >supported on sets of measure zero, is just as nicely done (if not
- >better) by regarding L^2 as the formal completion (relative to the L^2
- >norm) of a convenient dense subset (where the Lebesgue measure theory
- >is not needed). I'm not enough of an analyst to confirm this.
-
- This leaves the physicist with a function that he can't be sure he can
- get a Fourier series for, and a solution to a differential equation
- which has a Fourier series but is not a function since it is in some
- mysterious formal completion space.
-