I initially asked on MSE, but did not get an answer there. Consider the following proposition from chapter IV of Takesaki's "Theory of operator algebras I" (more context/definitions in the picture below): [![enter image description here][1]][1] I'm a bit confused by two aspects of this statement. (1) Let $f: \Gamma \to E$ be $\mu$-measurable (as in definition 7.1 of this book). How does $$\|f\|_p^p := \int_\Gamma \|f(\gamma)\|^p d\mu(\gamma)$$ make sense? Don't we need that $\|f\|: \Gamma \to \mathbb{C}$ is measurable in the **usual** measure theoretical sense for this integral to make sense? (2) When Takesaki mentions the space of $E$-valued $\mu$-measurable functions $f$ with $\|f\|_p < \infty$, shouldn't we take a further quotient vector space with the subspace $$N:= \{f : \|f\|_p = 0\}$$ to make sure that we end up with a normed space (as opposed to a seminormed space)? For context, here is the relevant part with definitions/results in Takesaki's book: [![enter image description here][2]][2] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/xottp.png [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/tkK0g.png