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- From: bennett@math.ksu.edu (Andy Bennett)
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- Subject: Re: Lebesgue integral (was: Couple of questions
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 15:29:53 GMT
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- ramsay@unixg.ubc.ca (Keith Ramsay) writes:
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- ]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.
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- You can certainly produce an acceptable theory of integration this way. See
- Chapter 13, The Daniell Integral in Royden's Real Analysis. I've never seen
- the advantage though. You seem to end up doing just as much technical work
- as developing the Lebesgue integral.
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