Solution

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Choose measurable sets carrying with , and put . Every absolutely continuous component vanishes on , and every singular component vanishes on its complement. The given restriction identity therefore gives
The first is singular with respect to . The second is absolutely continuous because it is bounded above by . They sum to , so uniqueness identifies them as its Lebesgue components.
Let and , using measurable representatives. Each partition sum is at most . For the reverse inequality, partition measurably by assigning a point to the smallest index attaining this finite maximum. On its assigned cell , and the partition sum is exactly . Thus
The maximum of finitely many integrable nonnegative densities is integrable, since it is at most their sum.

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