Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 ii Paper 1 25J Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The dominated convergence theorem states that if measurable functions converge almost everywhere and their absolute values are bounded by a single Lebesgue integrable function, their limit is integrable and their integrals converge to its integral.
Put . The hypothesis makes summable. On the positive integers with counting measure define . For each fixed it tends to zero and . Dominated convergence givesthe stated Kronecker lemma.
For a bounded interval union , has density bounded by . Hence , andBy Tonelli's theorem, the nonnegative series is finite almost surely. Kronecker lemma then makes the empirical occupation fraction of tend to zero. The family of finite rational-endpoint interval unions is countable, so intersecting their probability-one events proves simultaneous convergence for all of them. For the whole line, every indicator is one. ThusThere is no countably additive Borel measure extending these values: would have measure zero by continuity from below, contrary to its assigned measure one. The escaped empirical mass cannot be captured by a probability measure on the real line.