Let be Lebesgue measurable functions on a Lebesgue measurable set , converging almost everywhere to , with . The limit has a measurable representative: use off the exceptional null set and zero on it. The completeness of Lebesgue measure makes any alternative values on that null set measurable as well. Fatou's lemma applied to gives the displayed bound, so is finite almost everywhere and Lebesgue integrable. A uniform L1 norm bound alone does not imply convergence in L1 space; the strict inequality in Fatou lemma supplies a shrinking-spike example.
Lebesgue measurable sections Created 2026-10-25 Updated 2026-10-31
For a planar Lebesgue measurable set , its vertical section is a one-dimensional Lebesgue measurable set for almost everywhere. Write with a planar Borel set and a Borel Lebesgue null set. Every section and is Borel; Tonelli's theorem gives . Thus for almost everywhere, and proves the assertion by completeness of Lebesgue measure. No finite-measure condition on is needed.
Exceptional sections need not be measurable: is a planar Lebesgue null set for every , even when is a non-measurable set. Conversely, if both and are non-measurable, cannot be measurable. Otherwise every would have to lie in the null exceptional set, making measurable by completeness of Lebesgue measure.
Non-measurable set Created 2026-10-25 Updated 2026-10-31
A subset of a measurable space is non-measurable when . On the real line, unless another sigma-algebra is specified, this commonly means that is not a Lebesgue measurable set. By completeness of Lebesgue measure, such a set cannot be contained in a Lebesgue null set.
For an example, use the axiom of choice to select one representative from each equivalence class of under if , and call the resulting set . The translates , for , are pairwise disjoint, their union contains , and their union is contained in . If were a Lebesgue measurable set, translation invariance and countable additivity would make that union have measure zero when and infinite measure when . Both conclusions contradict these inclusions. Thus is non-measurable.
A subset is a Lebesgue measurable set when it satisfies Carathéodory's criterion: for every ,Suppose and let , allowing . The monotonicity of Lebesgue outer measure follows directly from covers: every cover of a larger set covers a smaller set. Thus , while . ConsequentlyThe reverse inequality is countable subadditivity of Lebesgue outer measure applied to . Equality follows, even if . Therefore and every subset are Lebesgue measurable sets of measure zero. This is the completeness of Lebesgue measure, obtained without presupposing measurability of the outer-null set.
The monotone convergence theorem states that, for nonnegative measurable on a Lebesgue measurable set with almost everywhere,allowing infinity. Fatou's lemma states that, for nonnegative measurable ,Now write . A pointwise limit superior of measurable functions is measurable, and it agrees with off the exceptional null set. By completeness of Lebesgue measure, assigning any values on that null set preserves measurability. Therefore is measurable. Since almost everywhere, Fatou's lemma givesThus is finite almost everywhere and is a Lebesgue integrable function. This is an almost-everywhere limit under a uniform L1 bound. The argument proves integrability of the limit, not convergence in L1 space.
Past exam of the integration course of the University of Oxford 2023 1 c ii Solution Created 2026-10-25 Updated 2026-10-31
True. Suppose instead that were a Lebesgue measurable set in the plane. The section consequence of Fubini's theorem says that there is a Lebesgue null set such thatis a Lebesgue measurable set for every . This version applies to completed Lebesgue measure; it can be obtained on bounded rectangles and then extended by a countable exhaustion, so no finite-measure assumption on is needed.
For every the section is exactly , which is not measurable. Thus . By completeness of Lebesgue measure, every subset of is measurable, contradicting the hypothesis on . Therefore
Past exam of the integration course of the University of Oxford 2023 1 c i Solution Created 2026-10-25 Updated 2026-10-31
False. Take and any non-measurable set . The vertical line is a planar Lebesgue null set: each segment can be enclosed in rectangles of arbitrarily small area, and the line is a countable union of these segments. Consequently its subset is a Lebesgue measurable set of planar measure zero, by completeness of Lebesgue measure.
A nonempty factor can therefore have too little Lebesgue measure to transmit the other factor's failure of measurability. Its exceptional vertical section at is consistent with Lebesgue measurable sections being guaranteed only almost everywhere.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ii Paper 1 23H b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-31
Every Lebesgue measurable set differs from a Borel set by a Lebesgue-null set . The given function is a homeomorphism from onto the interval . Hence is Borel relative to and therefore Lebesgue measurable in . Moreover,and is null by Lusin condition N. The completeness of Lebesgue measure now shows that is measurable, sois defined for every .
Because is injective, it maps pairwise disjoint sets to pairwise disjoint sets and commutes with arbitrary unions. The countable additivity of therefore givesThus is the image-length measure of a strictly increasing continuous function. If , the null-set hypothesis gives , so
The measure is sigma-finite, sinceThe Radon-Nikodym theorem consequently supplies a nonnegative locally integrable function such thatFor , strict increase and continuity giveand henceThe analogous oriented identity holds for . By differentiation of an indefinite Lebesgue integral,
Yes, the differentiability conclusion still holds when is merely non-decreasing. In fact, the Lebesgue theorem on differentiability of monotone functions says that every monotone function is differentiable almost everywhere; neither continuity nor the null-set hypothesis is needed for that conclusion. Flat intervals mean that the preceding image-set argument no longer gives disjoint images, so its natural replacement is the Lebesgue-Stieltjes measure determined by