For an integrable function , the Lebesgue differentiation theorem states that
for almost everywhere . In particular,
at every Lebesgue point of .
Almost every is a Lebesgue point of . At such an , for ,
For , the same estimate over gives the identical limit. Therefore
at every Lebesgue point of , so is differentiable -almost everywhere. This is the differentiation of an indefinite Lebesgue integral.
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, so
is 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 gives
Thus is the image-length measure of a strictly increasing continuous function. If , the null-set hypothesis gives , so
The measure is sigma-finite, since
The Radon-Nikodym theorem consequently supplies a nonnegative locally integrable function such that
For , strict increase and continuity give
and hence
The 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