Skip to main content

All Questions

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
9 votes
1 answer
4k views

What are some characterizations of the strong and total variation convergence topologies on measures?

I asked this question on StackExchange a few days ago but didn't get any response, so I thought I would try here. The Wikipedia article on convergence of measures defines three kinds of convergence: ...
user39080's user avatar
  • 203
13 votes
1 answer
736 views

Idempotent measures on the free binary system?

Let $(S,*)$ be the free (non associative) binary system on one generator (so $S$ is just the set of terms in $*$ and $1$). There is an extension of $*$ to the space $P(S)$ of finitely additive ...
Justin Moore's user avatar
  • 3,547
7 votes
1 answer
261 views

Comparison of several topologies for probability measures

Let $X$ be a compact metric space and denote $\mathcal M(X)$ the set of probability measures on $X$. For $\mu\in\mathcal M(X)$ we write $\operatorname{supp} \mu$ for the support of $\mu$. As is well ...
Kass's user avatar
  • 243
4 votes
0 answers
119 views

Is the range of a probability-valued random variable with the variation topology (almost) separable?

Let $X$ and $Y$ be uncountable Polish spaces, $\Delta(Y)$ be the space of Borel probability measures on $Y$ endowed with the Borel $\sigma$-algebra induced by the variation distance, and let $g:X\to \...
Michael Greinecker's user avatar
-1 votes
2 answers
409 views

$X$ is Polish and $N$ is countable. Is $N^X$ Polish? [closed]

$X$ is a separable, completely metrizable topological space equipped with its sigma algebra of Borel sets. $N$ is a countable space. $X^N$ is the collection of all mappings from $N$ to $X$. It is ...
High GPA's user avatar
  • 263