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Mathlib.MeasureTheory.Integral.Regular

Integrals of continuous functions with respect to regular measures #

When a measure is regular, one may express the measure of compact sets and of open sets in terms of the integral of continuous functions equal to 1 on the compact set, or to 0 outside of the open set respectively.

In a locally compact regular space with an inner regular measure, the measure of a compact set k is the infimum of the integrals of compactly supported functions equal to 1 on k.

theorem IsOpen.measure_eq_biSup_integral_continuous {X : Type u_1} [TopologicalSpace X] [MeasurableSpace X] [BorelSpace X] [T2Space X] {U : Set X} (hU : IsOpen U) (μ : MeasureTheory.Measure X) [MeasureTheory.IsFiniteMeasure μ] [μ.InnerRegularCompactLTTop] [NormalSpace X] :
μ U = ⨆ (f : X), ⨆ (_ : Continuous f), ⨆ (_ : Set.EqOn f 0 U), ⨆ (_ : 0 f), ⨆ (_ : f 1), ENNReal.ofReal ( (x : X), f x μ)

Given an inner regular finite measure, the measure of an open set is the supremum of the integrals of nonnegative continuous functions supported in this set and bounded by 1.