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Note on the Borel Method of Measure Extension

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

G. Fox*
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal
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This note concerns a countably additive measure on a Boolean ring of subsets of an abstract set, this measure being real-valued, admitting ∞ as a possible value. We are interested only in unique extensions, so we suppose the measure to be σ- finite. The following well known result will be referred to as the "extension theorem": "Every σ-finite measure on a ring extends uniquely to a σ-finite measure on the generated σ-ring. "Besides the familiar proof using outer measure, there is a Borel-type proof using transfinite induction [4]. We attempt here to reduce the Borel-type proof to its ultimate simplicity, reducing the problem to the bounded case.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1962

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