Barycenter of a measure on a Banach space 2026-10-05
For a probability measure whose identity map is strongly measurable with integrable norm, its barycenter is the Bochner integral of that map. It is characterized by for every continuous linear functional. For a measure on a weakly compact set in a separable Banach space, its barycenter belongs to the norm-closed convex hull of that set.
Countable norming family 2026-10-05
A real separable Banach space has a sequence in its dual unit ball with for every . Choose a dense sequence in the unit sphere and apply the Hahn-Banach theorem to obtain . In the complex case use .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 106 4 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
The Mazur theorem states that the weak closure and norm closure of a convex set in a normed vector space coincide:Norm closure is contained in weak closure because the weak topology is coarser. Conversely, if , the Hahn-Banach separation theorem provides a continuous real linear functional strictly separating from that closed convex set. In a complex space this is the real part of a continuous complex linear functional. A weak neighborhood of then misses , so . This proves the equality. It also gives the usual Mazur lemma: if , then lies in the norm closure of the convex hull of each tail, so one can choose tail convex combinations with .
Now let be a weakly compact set in a normed space . Each is bounded on because it is weakly continuous. The family in , where is the canonical embedding into the bidual, is therefore pointwise bounded. The space is Banach even if is not. Apply the Uniform boundedness principle and use to obtainThis proves that a weakly compact set is norm bounded without assuming completeness of the original space.
For the real-valued dual and integral formulas that follow, take to be real, as in the PDF. In a complex space the norming formula uses real parts, and the integral identities use complex-valued functionals instead.
If the separable Banach space is nonzero, choose a norm-dense sequence in its unit sphere. By the Hahn-Banach theorem, choose with and . For any unit vector , arbitrarily close satisfyScaling gives the countable norming family identityFor use the constant sequence of zero functionals. If is norm-Borel measurable, every is measurable, so its countable supremum is measurable. Equivalently, this also follows directly from continuity of the norm.
For any , continuity makes measurable, andThus the assumed integrability of the norm implies scalar integrability, anddefines a bounded linear functional on . Use the granted weak-star continuity of . By the continuous dual of a weak-star topology, is evaluation at a vector of . Indeed, continuity gives finitely many and such that whenever for all . Scaling shows that vanishes on the common kernel of these evaluations. It therefore factors through their finite-dimensional coordinate map, so . The Hahn-Banach theorem makes this representing vector unique. HenceIn this separable setting the vector is the Bochner integral.
Return to a weakly compact set and its inclusion . For each fixed , the identity makes weakly Borel measurable. Norm balls are consequently weakly Borel measurable. Separability gives a countable base of such balls, so every norm-open set is weakly Borel measurable. This proves measurability of , and establishes the equality of the weak and norm Borel sigma-algebras in a separable Banach space.
Put . For every finite signed Borel measure on ,For positive measures this is the integral in the question. For signed measures, the correct integrability condition uses the variation measure; define the integral by taking the difference of the positive and negative integrals. The printed in this clause should be , the domain of the inclusion.
The Riesz-Markov-Kakutani representation theorem now defines the bounded linear mapFor each the restriction is in , andThe right side is weak-star continuous in . The defining property of the weak topology therefore proves that is weak-star-to-weak continuous, for arbitrary nets. For a Dirac measure, .
If , let be its regular probability measures. This is a weak-star closed subset of : its conditions are and for every nonnegative . It is compact by Banach-Alaoglu theorem. Thus is weakly compact and convex, and contains because it contains all . It is weakly closed, hence norm closed, so it contains . By Mazur theorem, is weakly closed. Therefore it is a closed subset of the weakly compact set , provingThe empty case is immediate. In fact : a barycenter of a measure on a Banach space outside would be strictly separated by a functional , contradicting .
The weak topology and norm topology of a separable Banach space generate the same Borel sigma-algebra. A countable norming family makes every norm ball weakly Borel measurable, and separability makes every norm-open set a countable union of such balls. The reverse inclusion follows because the weak topology is coarser.