Solution

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Suppose are two such decompositions. Choose measurable supports of the singular parts with , and put . Absolute continuity makes both and vanish on . On the two singular parts vanish, so for every measurable ,
Subtracting from the finite measure gives . This proves uniqueness of the Lebesgue decomposition without subtracting infinite masses.
For the specified , the restriction to is singular because , and the complementary restriction is absolutely continuous by assumption. Their sum is . Uniqueness therefore gives

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