I've been introduced to the Fubini-Tonelli theorems in my probability/measure theory class in the following way:
or if you want a similar looking pdf: https://www.cmi.ac.in/~prateek/measure_theory/2010-10-06.pdf. Notice that all the integrals in the image and the pdf are w.r.t. measures like μ,ν and NOT variables like t,x,y.
Question setup: Now, looking at the answer to the following question: Intuitive explanation for EX=∫∞01−F(x)dx, one of the integrals is dP (a probability measure) and one is dt, which is not a measure. This makes me uncomfortable because then it doesn't "look like" we can use the above versions of Fubini/Tonelli on it, because the connotation of dt is Riemann integration and not Lebesgue integration.
Question: can we change the dt integral to be something like dλ (where λ denotes Lebesgue measure)? When are we sure we can interchange between dt (or dx or dy) integrals with integrals w.r.t measures like λ, especially in these infinite cases?
The reason I specify the infinite case (and the one in the linked question in particular, which is special because the inside function, $f(x) = P(X
, is a monotonically decreasing bounded function) is because I know for the bounded, interval case, we have: General condition that Riemann and Lebesgue integrals are the same.
Basically, can someone tell me how to get the dt,dx,dy integrals into the measure theoretic form, and the criterion for knowing when I can do this interchange or not?
I get that this may be a simple misunderstanding of notation on my part, so if that's the case I hope someone can explain the correct way of interpreting this notation.
Answer
All that you need to know are these theorems, that I will state here without proof:
Theorem 1: every Riemann integrable function is Lebesgue integrable, that is, if ∫baf(x)dx exists for some pair $-\infty , then ∫baf(x)dx=∫[a,b]fdλ where the latter is an integral of Lebesgue respect to the Lebesgue measure λ.
Theorem 2: if f is Lebesgue integrable (w.r.t. the Lebesgue measure in the real line) and the set of discontinuities of f have measure zero then f is improperly Riemann integrable and ∫Rfdλ=∫∞−∞f(x)dx.
Theorem 3: let f:R→R Riemann integrable in any bounded interval. Then if f is non-negative or the improper integral of Riemann ∫ba|f|dx is finite (for −∞⩽a⩽b⩽∞) then ∫baf(x)dx=∫(a,b)fdλ, where the first is an improper integral of Riemann, and the latter is an integral of Lebesgue w.r.t. the Lebesgue measure.
Almost any other case of functions f:I→R, for some interval I⊂R, can be reduced to one of the theorems above considering the trivial extension ˜f:R→R defined by
˜f(x):={f(x),x∈I0, otherwise
Hope it helps.
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