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Pre-measure spaces and pre-integration spaces in predicative Bishop-Cheng measure theory

Logic 2024-10-09 v4 Functional Analysis

Abstract

Bishop's measure theory (BMT) is an abstraction of the measure theory of a locally compact metric space XX, and the use of an informal notion of a set-indexed family of complemented subsets is crucial to its predicative character. The more general Bishop-Cheng measure theory (BCMT) is a constructive version of the classical Daniell approach to measure and integration, and highly impredicative, as many of its fundamental notions, such as the integration space of pp-integrable functions LpL^p, rely on quantification over proper classes (from the constructive point of view). In this paper we introduce the notions of a pre-measure and pre-integration space, a predicative variation of the Bishop-Cheng notion of a measure space and of an integration space, respectively. Working within Bishop Set Theory (BST), and using the theory of set-indexed families of complemented subsets and set-indexed families of real-valued partial functions within BST, we apply the implicit, predicative spirit of BMT to BCMT. As a first example, we present the pre-measure space of complemented detachable subsets of a set XX with the Dirac-measure, concentrated at a single point. Furthermore, we translate in our predicative framework the non-trivial, Bishop-Cheng construction of an integration space from a given measure space, showing that a pre-measure space induces the pre-integration space of simple functions associated to it. Finally, a predicative construction of the canonically integrable functions L1L^1, as the completion of an integration space, is included.

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@article{arxiv.2207.08684,
  title  = {Pre-measure spaces and pre-integration spaces in predicative Bishop-Cheng measure theory},
  author = {Iosif Petrakis and Max Zeuner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08684},
  year   = {2024}
}