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Integral representation of linear functionals on function spaces

Functional Analysis 2014-03-28 v1

Abstract

Let AA be a vector space of real valued functions on a non-empty set XX and L:ARL:A\rightarrow\mathbb{R} a linear functional. Given a σ\sigma-algebra A\mathcal{A}, of subsets of XX, we present a necessary condition for LL to be representable as an integral with respect to a measure μ\mu on XX such that elements of A\mathcal{A} are μ\mu-measurable. This general result then is applied to the case where XX carries a topological structure and AA is a family of continuous functions and naturally A\mathcal{A} is the Borel structure of XX. As an application, short solutions for the full and truncated KK-moment problem are presented. An analogue of Riesz-Markov-Kakutani representation theorem is given where Cc(X)C_{c}(X) is replaced with whole C(X)C(X). Then we consider the case where AA only consists of bounded functions and hence is equipped with sup\sup-norm.

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@article{arxiv.1403.6956,
  title  = {Integral representation of linear functionals on function spaces},
  author = {Mehdi Ghasemi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.6956},
  year   = {2014}
}
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