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Darboux Sums Bound the Lebesgue Integral on a Closed Interval

A bounded Borel measurable function on a closed interval is Lebesgue integrable, and its Lebesgue integral lies between its lower and upper Darboux sums for every partition.

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In the settings of Measurable Functions and the Lebesgue Integral: Notation and The Real Line: Standing Notation and Background for Calculus on Intervals, assume the axiom of dependent choice. Let a,b∈Ra,b\in\mathbb{R} with a<ba<b, let [a,b][a,b] be the closed interval, and let Ξ»\lambda be Lebesgue measure on R\mathbb{R}. Write ([a,b],B[a,b],Ξ»[a,b])([a,b],\mathcal{B}_{[a,b]},\lambda_{[a,b]}) for the restriction of (R,B(R),Ξ»)(\mathbb{R},\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}),\lambda) to [a,b][a,b] (a measure space, as Ξ»\lambda is a measure and [a,b]∈B(R)[a,b]\in\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}) by Lebesgue Measure on the Real Line: Existence, Lengths of Intervals and Uniqueness (iv) and Lebesgue Measure on the Real Line: Existence, Lengths of Intervals and Uniqueness (i)); thus B[a,b]={D∈B(R):DβŠ†[a,b]}\mathcal{B}_{[a,b]}=\{D\in\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}):D\subseteq[a,b]\} and Ξ»[a,b](D)=Ξ»(D)\lambda_{[a,b]}(D)=\lambda(D) for D∈B[a,b]D\in\mathcal{B}_{[a,b]}. Let f:[a,b]β†’Rf:[a,b]\to\mathbb{R} be measurable with respect to B[a,b]\mathcal{B}_{[a,b]} and bounded: there is B∈RB\in\mathbb{R} with ∣f(t)βˆ£β‰€B|f(t)|\le B for every t∈[a,b]t\in[a,b]. For a partition PP of [a,b][a,b], L(f,P)L(f,P) and U(f,P)U(f,P) are the lower sum and the upper sum of ff with respect to PP.

Darboux bounds. f∈L1(λ[a,b])f\in\mathcal{L}^{1}(\lambda_{[a,b]}), and for every partition PP of [a,b][a,b],

L(f,P)β‰€βˆ«f dΞ»[a,b]≀U(f,P).L(f,P)\le\int f\,d\lambda_{[a,b]}\le U(f,P).

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