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Another ‘short’ proof of the Riesz representation theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. J. H. Garling
D. J. H. Garling
Affiliation:
St John's College, Cambridge
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1. Introduction. In [2], a short synthetic proof of the Riesz representation theorem was given; this used the Hahn-Banach theorem, the Stone-Čech compactification of a discrete space and the Caratheodory extension procedure for measures. In this note, we show how the theorem can be proved using ultrapowers in place of the Stone-Čech compactification. We also describe how the proof can be expressed in a non-standard way (a rather different non-standard proof has been given by Loeb [4]).

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 99 , Issue 2 , March 1986 , pp. 261 - 262
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1986

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