Differentiation of an indefinite Lebesgue integral Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If is locally Lebesgue integrable and
then at every Lebesgue point of , and hence almost everywhere.
Lebesgue differentiation theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-07
If is locally Lebesgue integrable on , then for Lebesgue almost every ,
Lebesgue point Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A point is a Lebesgue point of a locally Lebesgue integrable function when
The Lebesgue differentiation theorem says that almost every point is a Lebesgue point.
A phase function is a real smooth function
that is positively homogeneous of degree one in and has no critical point in all variables:
The symbol class consists of all such that, for every compact and multi-indices ,
For a cutoff equal to one near zero, define the oscillatory integral by
Repeated integration by parts makes the limit meaningful and independent of the cutoff.
The singular support is the complement of the largest open set on which the distribution is represented by a smooth function. Suppose does not belong to
On a sufficiently small neighborhood of , homogeneity and compactness of the unit sphere give a lower bound for . The differential operator
satisfies . Repeatedly transferring to the amplitude lowers its symbol order until the integral and all its -derivatives converge absolutely. Hence is smooth near , proving
For the stated distribution on , rotational symmetry lets us align the polar axis with and write . The angular integral is
Therefore, for ,
The original amplitude is not Lebesgue integrable in , so this computation illustrates how oscillation assigns a distribution to a divergent ordinary integral. The result is smooth away from the origin and has singular support . It is a constant multiple of the three-dimensional Yukawa potential, satisfying with the normalization used in the question.
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.
Let contain the support of . Choose a cutoff function that equals one near . It makes
well-defined, and differentiating the parameter under the pairing gives
Thus the Fourier transform of a compactly supported distribution is a smooth function. Since a compactly supported distribution has finite order, some and satisfy
Applying this estimate to the exponential yields .
Now take , multiply by a cutoff function supported in and equal to one near , and regard the result as an element of . Choose so large that
is Lebesgue integrable. The inverse Fourier transform is a bounded continuous function, and the Fourier transform of a derivative gives
as a distributional identity. This is the Bessel potential proof of the structure theorem for compactly supported distributions.
The function itself need not have compact support. Choose another cutoff equal to one near . Then . Repeatedly using
expresses as a finite sum , where every coefficient is continuous and compactly supported in .
For , its regular tempered distribution acts by integration, and the distributional transform agrees with the function
The triangle inequality gives the uniform bound
If , then pointwise and every integrand is bounded in absolute value by the Lebesgue integrable function . The Dominated convergence theorem therefore proves that is continuous. In fact the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma also gives as .
Because is integrable on , the Dominated convergence theorem applied to the defining integral proves that is continuous on .
For , the change of variables formula gives
and for the analogous formula is obtained with . On either open half-line the lower endpoint stays away from zero locally, so repeated differentiation under the integral sign proves smoothness. Thus
The finite sigma-algebra is partitioned by the nonempty events
These are its atoms. Define the random variable
and give it any finite value on the union of the null atoms. It is -measurable and integrable. Every is a union of atoms, so
This constructs the requested variable directly, without invoking the general existence theorem for conditional expectation.