Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 44 1 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
Define , where is the Dirac measure at . For the full sigma-algebra of subsets of a finite , affineness directly gives .
The statement also holds for an arbitrary sigma-algebra on a finite set. List each atom of a sigma-algebra as and choose . Points in one atom have identical Dirac measures on this sigma-algebra, so is constant on each atom and is measurable. Every probability measure decomposes as , whenceThis is the expected utility representation on a finite measurable space. It does not silently assume that each singleton is measurable.