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The union of weighted compact supported continuous function
Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^N$ be open. Given a weight function $v\geq 1$ such that $v\in L^1_{\text{loc}}(\Omega)$ and $l.s.c$. Also supposethere exists a Lipschitz continuous sequence $v_n$ such ...
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Area defined with $\pm$ closedness
Denote $B_n\subset\Bbb R^n$ to be unit ball at origin.
Denote $S\subset B_n$ to region of type $\mathsf I$ if it satisfies
$$s\in S\iff\forall t\in S, s+t\in S\mbox{ or }s-t\in S$$
I am convinced $\...
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How can I show that "almost all function" have property P?
The following is cross-posted from
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1391293/is-almost-all-function-a-well-defined-concept
since I didn't (yet) get an answer there.
(I hope that's okay?)
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Is the space of vectorial functions that are Dunford integrable complete?
Let $X$ a Banach Space and $(\Omega, \Sigma, \mu)$ a measure space. A function $F:\Omega\rightarrow X$ is Dunford integrable if $x^\ast\circ F$ is $\mu$-integrable for every $x^\ast\in X^\ast$. The ...
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Is it true that for dimension d=3, if $v\in H_0^1(\Omega)$ but $v\notin L_\infty(\Omega)$ then exponent of v or -v is not summable?
I have the following Question:
1) Is it true that
if $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^3$, $\Omega$ - bounded, $v\in H_0^1(\Omega)$ but $v\notin L_\infty(\Omega)$ implies $\int\limits_{\Omega}{e^vdx}=+\infty$ ...
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Is taking the product of signed measures weakly continuous?
For a Polish space $X$, let $C_b(X)$ denote the real Banach space of bounded continuous real-valued functions on $X$. Let $M(X)$ denote the space of all finite signed Borel measures on $X$, equipped ...
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What does the Plancherel theorem say about positive-definite distributions?
I'm trying to understand the answer to this MO question: Bochner's theorem for measures of positive type, which suggests a relationship between Bochner's theorem and the Plancherel theorem.
The ...
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Is a specific sequentially closed subset of $M([0,1])$ closed?
Let $M([0,1])$ be the set of finite signed measures on $[0,1]$
(with the topology generated by the sets $\left\{ \mu \in M([0,1]) : \left| \int f(x) \mu(dx)- a\right| \leq \delta\right\}$ for all $\...
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Is the space of signed finite measures on a compact set $M([0,1])$ a sequential space?
Let $M([0,1])$ be the set of finite signed measures on $[0,1]$
(with the topology generated by the sets $\left\{ \mu \in M([0,1]) : \left| \int f(x) \mu(dx)- a\right| \leq \delta\right\}$ for all $\...
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Is the Jordan decomposition of a self-adjoint functional constructive?
Let $A$ be an abstract C*-algebra, and let $\varphi\colon A \rightarrow \mathbb C$ be a bounded linear function. Assuming the axiom of choice, there exist unique positive bounded linear functions $\...
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convex function with distributional Hessian $D^2 f \leqslant \lambda$, $\lambda$-concave?
Let $f:R^n \to R$ be convex (may not $C^1$), $$[D^2f]=[D^2f]_{ac}+[D^2f]_s=[h_{ij}] L^n+[D^2f]_s$$ is the Lebesgue decomposition of the Hessian matrix. Where $[h_{ij}]$ is the density w.r.t the ...
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Can one estimate the distribution of eigenvalues of a matrix by its Cauchy/Stieltje transform?
Given a real symmetric $n$ dimensional matrix $A$, with eigenvalues $\lambda_i$ I am defining its Cauchy transform as the function, $f_A(z) = \sum_i \frac{1}{z-\lambda_i}\,$
Is there any information ...
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Simultaneous approximation of arbitrary functions in Hölder space and in $L^2(\mu)$ by a smooth function and its derivative
Let $\mu$ be a probability measure on the circle $S^1=\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$ which is singular with respect to the Lebesgue measure $\lambda$. Consider the functions spaces $L^2(\mu)$ on the one hand, ...
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An indicator of a planar subset as an element of a tensor product
Denote $I=(0, 1)$, and let $\mu$ be the Lebesgue measure on $I$. Does there exist a function $f$ on $I\times I$ viewed as an element of the space $L^\infty(\mu\times\mu)$ such that
$$
f^2=f
$$
(that ...
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When does a function space allow for point evaluations? [closed]
Consider a space of (generalized) functions $F$ defined on a measure space $\Omega$ and equipped with a topology.
What are necessary and sufficient conditions for point evaluations at arbitrary $x \...
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Continuity of function mapping $\mathcal{P}(\mathcal{P}(X))$ to $\mathcal{P}(X)$ [closed]
Given a topological space $Y$, let $\mathcal{P}(Y)$ be the set of all probability measures on $Y$, endowed with the weak* topology.
Let $X$ be a topological space (for convenience, it might be Polish ...
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How to show that there's a continuous function separating convex sets of Radon measures?
First, the setup: $X$ is a compact set. By Riesz's representation theorem $C(X)^*=${all Radon measures on $X$}. $K$ is a convex, closed set of probability measures. $m$ is a probability measure out of ...
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Topologies for which $\mathcal{M}(X)\otimes \mathcal{M}(Y)$ is dense in $\mathcal{M}(X\times Y)$
Are there complete TVS topologies for which $\mathcal{M}(X)\otimes \mathcal{M}(Y)$ is dense in $\mathcal{M}(X\times Y)$
This question is strongly linked to
is the space of all borel measures on $\...
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A measure on the space of probability measures
This question was originaly posted in the stackexchange https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1226701/a-measure-on-the-space-of-probability-measures but since it only got a comment I decided to ...
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Existence of a measure-preserving bijection
Let $f, g \, \colon \mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be two Borel-measurable functions such that $f$ is non negative and
g is radially symmetric,
the function $ (0, \infty )\ni t \mapsto g (tx)$ ...
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Is the space of all borel measures on $\mathbb R^n$ isomorphic to the tensor product of spaces of borel measures on $\mathbb R$?
Similarly to the decomposition $L_2(\mathbb R^n) = L_2(\mathbb{R})^{\otimes n}$ as vector spaces (and even as Hilbert spaces) , do we have $bm(\mathbb{R^n}) = bm(\mathbb{R})^{\otimes n}$
where $bm(\...
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Measure with `somewhere dense' support
Let $X$ be a compact Hausdorff (but not necessarily metrizable) space.
Is it always true that there exists a probability Borel measure $\mu$ and an open set $U$ such that any nonempty open set $V\...
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Transitive closure of balanced bounded mass transport
Given two $\sigma$-finite measures $\mu$ and $\nu$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$, write $\mu \sim \nu$ iff there exist countable decompositions $\mu = \mu_1 + \mu_2 + \cdots$ and $\nu = \nu_1 + \nu_2 + \cdots$ ...
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distributional Hessian for semiconvex functions on non-smooth manifolds
Let $f:R^n \to R$ be convex. Then there exist signed Radon measures $\mu^{ij}=\mu^{ji}$ such that
$$
\int_{R^n} f \frac{\partial^2 \varphi}{\partial x_i \partial x_j} dx= \int_{R^n} \varphi d\mu^{ij} ...
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Injective inclusion map from RKHS function space to $L_p(\mu)$
Let $X$ be a measurable space, $\mu$ be a $\sigma$-finite measure on $X$, and $H$ be a separable reproducing kernel Hilbert space over $X$ with a measurable kernel $k$.
At a certain part in a proof I ...
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Support of a Measure with Characteristic Functional Continuous in $L_p$, $1\leq p <2$?
Let $\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R})$ be the space of smooth and rapidly decaying functions and $\mathcal{S}'(\mathbb{R})$ its dual, the space of tempered distributions. Let $\mathscr{P}$ be a probability ...
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Is $ {C_{c}}(G) $ a meager subset of $ {L^{2}}(G) $ for a second-countable locally compact Hausdorff group $ G $?
The following problem is a stumbling block in a research project that I am working on:
Problem. Let $ G $ be a second-countable locally compact Hausdorff group with a fixed Haar measure. Is it true ...
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Generating the sigma algebras on the set of probability measures
I was wondering if somebody could help me see/provide a reference to the following fact: Let $X$ be a metrizable set, $\mathcal{F}$ the corresponding Borel sigma-algebra on $X$, and $\triangle\left(X,\...
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Krein Milman theorem without the axiom of choice
The Krein-Milman theorem asserts that in a locally convex topological vector space, a nonvoid compact convex subset is the closed convex envelope of its extreme points. But I would like to know when ...
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Dual or pre-dual of BV
Was there any relevant work to determine the dual (or more likely the predual) of the space of bounded variation functions $BV(\mathbb{R}^n)$ (I recall the definition : a function in $L^1(\mathbb{R}^n)...
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Uniformly bounded operator family and pointwise convergence
Let $1 \leq p < \infty$ be fixed and let $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ be open. Let $(Q_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ be a uniformly bounded family of operators on $L^p(\Omega)$, i.e. there exists $C>...
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Defining density of a random function using Radon-Nikodym Theorem
Let $(\Omega,\mathbb{F},P)$ be a probability space and $E$ be an infinite dimensional Banach space and $\mathbb{B}$ be the $\sigma$-algebra of Borel subset of $E$.
Let $X$ be random function defined ...
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Lebesgue point and regularity of functions
A known theorem says that for $f \in L_{loc}^1(\mathbb{R}^d)$, almost every point is a Lebesgue point.
I know too a theorem saying that for $f \in W_{loc}^{1,p}(\mathbb{R}^d)$ , every point is a ...
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Reference for a strong intermediate value theorem for measures
Let $\mu$ be a finite nonatomic measure on a measurable space $(X,\Sigma)$, and for simplicity assume that $\mu(X) = 1$. There is a well-known "intermediate value theorem" of Sierpiński that states ...
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Is an infinite-dimensional "Lebesgue measure" uniquely determined by a set of positive finite measure?
Let $\mu$ be a probability measure on a subset $C \subset \mathbb{R}^\infty$ of the space of sequences, and assume, for simplicity, that $C$ is closed and convex.
We say that $\mu$ admits shifts if ...
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existence of locally translation-invariant Borel measure on Frechet manifolds
It is well known that the only locally finite, translation-invariant Borel measure on an
infinite-dimensional, separable Frechet space is the trivial measure. I am wondering about an analogous ...
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Functional representation of adapted jointly measurable stochastic processes
It seems like the question stated here in MSE has no answer yet and seems therefore for me to be not of a basic question type. For this reason I move it to MO.
Let $X_t : \Omega \to E, \ t \geq 0$ be ...
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If $ F(x,\bullet) \in {L^{2}}(G,B) $ for all $ x \in G $, then is $ x \mapsto F(x,\bullet) $ strongly measurable?
This question is related to something that I asked yesterday: If $ F(x,\bullet) \in {L^{\infty}}(G,B) $ for all $ x \in G $, then is $ x \mapsto F(x,\bullet) $ strongly measurable?
Pietro Majer ...
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If $ F(x,\bullet) \in {L^{\infty}}(G,B) $ for all $ x \in G $, then is $ x \mapsto F(x,\bullet) $ strongly measurable?
Let $ (X,\Sigma,\mu) $ be a $ \sigma $-finite measure space and $ B $ a Banach space. A function $ f: X \to B $ is said to be strongly $ \mu $-measurable iff it is the almost-everywhere pointwise ...
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Approximating a measurable function from a second-countable, locally compact Hausdorff group to a separable Banach space
Let $ G $ be a second-countable, locally compact Hausdorff group and $ B $ a separable Banach space.
We say that a function $ f: G \to B $ is Bochner-measurable if and only if it is the everywhere ...
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The Notion of Strong Measurability for Separable Banach Spaces
Let $ (X,\Sigma,\mu) $ be a measure space and $ B $ a Banach space. According to my understanding, a function $ f: X \to B $ is said to be strongly $ \mu $-measurable if and only if it is the almost-...
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Inversion of Fourier transform of a multivariate gamma distribution in polar form?
Let $\mathbb{S}^{N-1}$ be the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^N$ under the Euclidean norm $||\cdot||$. Let $\mu$ be an infinitely divisible Borel measure. If there exists a finite measure $\alpha$ on $\...
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Pointwise a.e. formulation of parabolic PDE, what if null set depends on test function?
Let $u \in L^2(0,T;V)$ with $u_t \in L^2(0,T;V^*)$ be a solution of
$$\langle u_t(t), v \rangle + a(t;u(t), v) = \langle f(t), v \rangle$$
where $f \in L^2(0,T;V^*)$ and we have the usual assumptions ...
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Is every continuous function measurable?
This question has already been asked on Math StackExchange here, but was too old to be migrated, and I think will be more appropriate to MathOverflow.
In non-Hausdorff topology it is standard to ...
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For what nonnegative measures $\mu$ does $\mu*e^{-|\cdot|}\in L^{\infty}$?
I am trying to characterize all measures on $\mathbb{R}$ such that
$$
\sup_{x\in\mathbb{R}} \: (\mu*f)(x)<+\infty,
$$
where $f(x)$ is some specific integrable functions, such as $f(x)=e^{-|x|}$, ...
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Proof of the Dunford-Pettis theorem
I would like to know where to find a complete proof of the Dunford-Pettis theorem:
A sequence $(f_n)_{n\geq 0} \subset L^1$ is uniformly integrable if and only if it is relatively compact for the weak ...
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Why do rotationally ordered configurations have well defined distributon function?
Let $u=(u_{j})_{j \in \mathbb{Z}}$ where $u_{j}\in \mathbb{R}$ for all $j \in \mathbb{Z}$ be a rotationally ordered configuration i.e. $S_{n,m}u>u$ or $S_{n,m}u<u$ or $S_{n,m}u=u$ where
$u<v$...
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Reference request: density of $C_c^{\infty}(\mathbb R^d)$ in $L^2(\mathbb R^d,d\rho)$
My question is motivated by an optimal transportation approach to PDE's and gradient flows in metric spaces (see e.g Otto's geometry of dissipative evolution equations: the porous media equation and ...
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Why does it seem that $rca=rba$? [closed]
The following paradox has got me stumped. I'm hoping someone can point out the error.
Take a locally compact metric space $X$ and define the $C_b(X)$ and $C_0(X)$ as the spaces of continuous real-...
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Measures, orthogonal to holomorphic functions
Let $G$ be a domain in $\mathbb{C}^{d}$ and let $H\left(G\right)$ be the space of all holomorphic functions on $G$.
My question is how to characterize all such (Radon) measures $\mu$ on $G$, that $\...
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