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Sum of a Nonnegative Function over an Arbitrary Set

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Reason: First version: unordered sum of a nonnegative function over an arbitrary index set as the supremum of finite sub-sums, with the empty-sum convention; base of the discrete Fisher-information toolkit.

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Let AA be a set and let f:A[0,)f:A\to[0,\infty) be a function with values in the nonnegative real numbers. For a nonempty finite subset FAF\subseteq A, xFf(x)\sum_{x\in F}f(x) denotes the sum over the finite index set FF of the restriction of ff to FF, and xf(x)=0\sum_{x\in\emptyset}f(x)=0.

The sum of ff over AA is the element

xAf(x)[0,]\sum_{x\in A}f(x)\in[0,\infty]

of the extended half-line [0,][0,\infty] of Measure, Measure Space, and Probability Measure, defined as follows: if the set {xFf(x): FA finite}\{\sum_{x\in F}f(x):\ F\subseteq A\text{ finite}\} of real numbers (which contains 00) is bounded above, then xAf(x)\sum_{x\in A}f(x) is its least upper bound; otherwise xAf(x)=\sum_{x\in A}f(x)=\infty.

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