Measurability of the section masses follows from Dynkin's theorem applied to measurable rectangles; monotone convergence then makes the composite a probability measure, determined by its values on rectangles. Iterated integration is proved for indicators, extended to bounded functions by linearity and uniform simple approximation, and to nonnegative functions by truncation and monotone convergence.
Each result cited is universally quantified over the data in its own statement.
Throughout, carries the -algebra , measurability of a real-valued function is with respect to the Borel -algebra of the real line as in Measure Spaces and the Lebesgue Integral: Standing Notation §measurable, and integrals are those of Measure Spaces and the Lebesgue Integral: Standing Notation §integral. A nonnegative measurable real-valued function is also a measurable map into in the sense of Lebesgue Integral of a Nonnegative Measurable Function, by Measure Spaces and the Lebesgue Integral: Standing Notation §measurable. By Probability Kernels Between Measurable Spaces §kernel, each is a probability measure on and each , , is measurable with respect to .
Step 0: two facts about a finite measure. Let be a measure space with a real number.
(P1) Let be measurable and let be real with for every . Then is integrable and . Indeed, is measurable by claim 4 of Arithmetic, Absolute Values, and Pointwise Limits of Measurable Real-Valued Functions and , so Linearity and Monotonicity of the Lebesgue Integral §nonnegative (monotonicity and the scalar rule) and The Integral of an Indicator Function is the Measure of the Set give ; hence is integrable by the criterion of Measure Spaces and the Lebesgue Integral: Standing Notation §integral, and by Linearity and Monotonicity of the Lebesgue Integral §integrable; here the Lebesgue integral of the nonnegative integrable function agrees with its integral as a nonnegative measurable function, bounded above, by (P2) below (whose proof does not use (P1)).
(P2) Let be measurable and integrable with . Then its Lebesgue integral equals its integral as a nonnegative measurable function. Indeed, in the notation of Integrable Function and the Lebesgue Integral, and is the zero function , whose integral is by Linearity and Monotonicity of the Lebesgue Integral §nonnegative and The Integral of an Indicator Function is the Measure of the Set.
Step 1: clause 1 (Sections). For write for ; this is defined since by claim 1 of Sections of Product-Measurable Sets and Maps Are Measurable, and Insertion Maps into Products Are Measurable. Since is a measure with and , Basic Properties of a Measure §monotone gives .
Let be the family of measurable rectangles with and , and let be the family of those for which is measurable with respect to . We apply Dynkin's Pi-Lambda Theorem with the -system and the -system , both families of subsets of .
is a -system: it contains , and with and by Sigma-Algebra and Measurable Space.
: by Product Sigma-Algebra and Generated Sigma-Algebra, . For , and , the section is if and if ; since ,
which is measurable by claims 1 and 3 of Arithmetic, Absolute Values, and Pointwise Limits of Measurable Real-Valued Functions and the measurability of .
is a -system. (1) , because for every , and constants are measurable by claim 1 of Arithmetic, Absolute Values, and Pointwise Limits of Measurable Real-Valued Functions. (2) Let with . Then , and for each we have with and , so Basic Properties of a Measure §differences gives ; thus is measurable by claim 2 of Arithmetic, Absolute Values, and Pointwise Limits of Measurable Real-Valued Functions. (3) Let be a sequence in with for every , and let , which lies in . For each the sections are nondecreasing in with union , and their measures are real and bounded above by ; by Basic Properties of a Measure §continuity-below the sequence converges to . Hence is measurable by claim 5 of Arithmetic, Absolute Values, and Pointwise Limits of Measurable Real-Valued Functions, and .
By Dynkin's Pi-Lambda Theorem, , and by Product Sigma-Algebra; so is measurable for every . Since and , (P1) shows that is integrable with respect to . This proves clause 1.
Step 2: clause 2 (Composite measure). For we have , which by (P2) is also the integral of as a nonnegative measurable function; since , Linearity and Monotonicity of the Lebesgue Integral §nonnegative and The Integral of an Indicator Function is the Measure of the Set give , so takes values in . Since for every , is the zero function , whose integral is by Linearity and Monotonicity of the Lebesgue Integral §nonnegative, The Integral of an Indicator Function is the Measure of the Set and (P2); so .
Countable additivity. Let be pairwise disjoint members of with union . For each the sections are pairwise disjoint members of with union , so by the countable additivity of the measure (Measure, Measure Space, and Probability Measure), ; as this sum is the real number , by the definition of the sum in Measure, Measure Space, and Probability Measure it is the least upper bound of the partial sums . The functions are nonnegative and measurable by claim 2 of Arithmetic, Absolute Values, and Pointwise Limits of Measurable Real-Valued Functions, and . By Monotone Convergence Theorem on ,
and by the additivity in Linearity and Monotonicity of the Lebesgue Integral §nonnegative, applied times, (all integrals here being nonnegative integrals, equal to the Lebesgue integrals by (P2) and Step 1). Hence the partial sums of are real, bounded above by the real number , and have least upper bound ; by Measure, Measure Space, and Probability Measure this says . Thus is a measure on .
Since , The Integral of an Indicator Function is the Measure of the Set and (P2) give , so is a probability measure. The rectangle formula of clause 2 is (1) integrated against .
Step 3: clause 3 (Rectangles determine it). Let be as in clause 3. By Step 2, and agree on every member of . Taking and gives . By Step 1, is a -system, and its generated -algebra in the sense of Generated Sigma-Algebra is by Product Sigma-Algebra. Claim 1 of Uniqueness of Finite Measures on a Generating Pi-System and the Density of the Exponential Law, applied to the measurable space , the -system and the measures and , gives .
Step 4: clause 4 (Bounded functions). Let be measurable with respect to , and let be real with . For each , is measurable with respect to by claim 3 of Sections of Product-Measurable Sets and Maps Are Measurable, and Insertion Maps into Products Are Measurable and is bounded by , so by (P1) on it is integrable and satisfies . By (P1) on the probability space of Step 2, is integrable with respect to ; and once is known to be measurable with respect to , (P1) shows that it is integrable with respect to . So it remains to prove, for every bounded measurable , the property
(R) is measurable with respect to and .
Let be the set of bounded measurable satisfying (R).
(4a) Indicators. Let . Then , so by The Integral of an Indicator Function is the Measure of the Set and (P2), , measurable by Step 1; and by the same two results and the definition of . So .
(4b) Linear combinations. Let and . Then is measurable by claim 2 of Arithmetic, Absolute Values, and Pointwise Limits of Measurable Real-Valued Functions and bounded. By Linearity and Monotonicity of the Lebesgue Integral §integrable on each , , which is measurable by claim 2 of Arithmetic, Absolute Values, and Pointwise Limits of Measurable Real-Valued Functions; and the same linearity on and on , where all functions involved are integrable by (P1), gives . So . By (4a), (4b) and induction on the number of terms of the standard representation of Simple Function and Its Integral, every simple function on belongs to .
(4c) Uniform limits. Let be bounded and measurable, and suppose there are and reals , for , such that converges to and everywhere. For , linearity (Linearity and Monotonicity of the Lebesgue Integral §integrable) and (P1) with give , so converges to , and is measurable by claim 5 of Arithmetic, Absolute Values, and Pointwise Limits of Measurable Real-Valued Functions. Then and , and the same two results on the probability spaces and give
using . Given a real , choose with ; so the left side is less than every positive real, hence , and .
(4d) Conclusion. Let be bounded and measurable with . The functions and are measurable by claims 1, 2 and 4 of Arithmetic, Absolute Values, and Pointwise Limits of Measurable Real-Valued Functions, satisfy , and . By claim 2 of Approximation of Measurable Functions by Simple Functions on the measure space with , there are nonnegative simple functions with for every , and converges to by Series of Nonnegative Real Numbers, Comparison, and the Geometric Series §geometric. By (4b) each , so by (4c); likewise , and by (4b). With the remarks at the start of this step, this proves clause 4, the function of clause 4 being .
Step 5: clause 5 (Nonnegative functions). Let be measurable. For let , measurable by claims 1 and 4 of Arithmetic, Absolute Values, and Pointwise Limits of Measurable Real-Valued Functions, with and ; for each point , as soon as , so is the least upper bound of . Let be the function of clause 4 for ; by Step 4 it is measurable with respect to , it is nonnegative because, by (P2), each equals the integral of the nonnegative function as a nonnegative measurable function; and by the monotonicity in Linearity and Monotonicity of the Lebesgue Integral §integrable, and . Let be the pointwise least upper bound in of .
For fixed , the functions are nonnegative, measurable with respect to , nondecreasing in , with least upper bound ; by Monotone Convergence Theorem on and (P2), the integral of as a nonnegative function is . By the criterion of Measure Spaces and the Lebesgue Integral: Standing Notation §integral, and since , the function is integrable with respect to exactly when , that is, when is bounded above, that is, when there is with for all . Hence
and each belongs to by claim 3 of Rational Intervals and Rays Generate the Borel Sigma-Algebra of the Real Line; so by Sigma-Algebra and Measurable Space. For , (P2) gives , the least upper bound of the ; for , . Hence for every real ,
where if and if . This set lies in , so is measurable by claim 3 of Rational Intervals and Rays Generate the Borel Sigma-Algebra of the Real Line. Moreover everywhere and on .
By Monotone Convergence Theorem on applied to , and on applied to (which also shows that is measurable), together with (P2),
all three as integrals of nonnegative functions in . By the criterion of Measure Spaces and the Lebesgue Integral: Standing Notation §integral, is integrable with respect to exactly when the quantity (2) is finite.
Suppose is integrable. Then , so by The Lebesgue Integral and Null Sets: Almost-Everywhere Comparison, Markov's Inequality, and Dominated Convergence Almost Everywhere §finite; and by Linearity and Monotonicity of the Lebesgue Integral §nonnegative, so is integrable. Conversely, suppose and is integrable. In either case , so is null by Null Set of a Measure and almost everywhere by A Property Holding Almost Everywhere; hence The Lebesgue Integral and Null Sets: Almost-Everywhere Comparison, Markov's Inequality, and Dominated Convergence Almost Everywhere §comparison gives , which in the converse case is finite because is integrable, so is integrable by (2). In both cases (2) and (P2) give as Lebesgue integrals. This proves clause 5.
Step 6: clause 6 (Constant kernels). Suppose for every . The measures and are -finite in the sense of Measure, Measure Space, and Probability Measure, as the constant sequences and show, since . By Existence and Uniqueness of the Product Measure there is exactly one measure on with for all and . By Step 2, is a measure on , and for , , using (P2), the scalar rule of Linearity and Monotonicity of the Lebesgue Integral §nonnegative with the real constant , and The Integral of an Indicator Function is the Measure of the Set,
By the uniqueness in Existence and Uniqueness of the Product Measure, .
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