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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p>In <a href="Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>, particularly <a href="Measure_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Measure theory">measure theory</a>, the <b>essential range</b>, or the set of <b>essential values</b>, of a <a href="Function_(mathematics)" title="Function (mathematics)">function</a> is intuitively the 'non-negligible' range of the function: It does not change between two functions that are equal <a href="Almost_everywhere" title="Almost everywhere">almost everywhere</a>. One way of thinking of the essential range of a function is the <a href="Set_(mathematics)" title="Set (mathematics)">set</a> on which the range of the function is 'concentrated'.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Formal_definition">Formal definition</h2></div>
<p>Let <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle (X,{\cal {A}},\mu )}">
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</math></span><img src="./4733ea6ad875aa2f051e05dd3f5fa747b6704352.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:9.821ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle ({\cal {A}},\sigma ({\cal {T}}))}" loading="lazy"></span>-<a href="Measurable_function" title="Measurable function">measurable function</a> <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle f:X\to Y}">
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<dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \operatorname {ess.im} (f)=\left\{y\in Y\mid 0<\mu (f^{-1}(U)){\text{ for all }}U\in {\cal {T}}{\text{ with }}y\in U\right\}.}">
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \operatorname {ess.im} (f)=\left\{y\in Y\mid 0<\mu (f^{-1}(U)){\text{ for all }}U\in {\cal {T}}{\text{ with }}y\in U\right\}.}</annotation>
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</math></span><img src="./f734db9dbdb010080e66c5e3fcb7622790745910.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -1.005ex; width:63.841ex; height:3.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \operatorname {ess.im} (f)=\left\{y\in Y\mid 0<\mu (f^{-1}(U)){\text{ for all }}U\in {\cal {T}}{\text{ with }}y\in U\right\}.}" loading="lazy"></span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Location: Example 0.A.5">: Example 0.A.5 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl>
<p>Equivalently, <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \operatorname {ess.im} (f)=\operatorname {supp} (f_{*}\mu )}">
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</math></span><img src="./f34a66679fcb34453ca96547360ae878bfa1aee5.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:22.866ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \operatorname {ess.im} (f)=\operatorname {supp} (f_{*}\mu )}" loading="lazy"></span>, where <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle f_{*}\mu }">
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Essential_values">Essential values</h3></div>
<p>The phrase "<b>essential value</b> of <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle f}">
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Special_cases_of_common_interest">Special cases of common interest</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Y_=_C"><i>Y</i> = <b>C</b></h3></div>
<p>Say <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle (Y,{\cal {T}})}">
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \operatorname {ess.im} (f)=\left\{z\in \mathbb {C} \mid {\text{for all}}\ \varepsilon \in \mathbb {R} _{>0}:0<\mu \{x\in X:|f(x)-z|<\varepsilon \}\right\}.}</annotation>
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<p>In other words: The essential range of a complex-valued function is the set of all complex numbers <i>z</i> such that the inverse image of each ε-neighbourhood of <i>z</i> under <i>f</i> has positive measure.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="(Y,T)_is_discrete">(<i>Y</i>,<i>T</i>) is discrete</h3></div>
<p>Say <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle (Y,{\cal {T}})}">
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<dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \operatorname {ess.im} (f)=\{y\in Y:0<\mu (f^{\text{pre}}\{y\})\}=\{y\in Y:0<(f_{*}\mu )\{y\}\}.}">
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</math></span><img src="./e01d6b137741ac1ae68de4458bcecf58aceecb12.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:64.416ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \operatorname {ess.im} (f)=\{y\in Y:0<\mu (f^{\text{pre}}\{y\})\}=\{y\in Y:0<(f_{*}\mu )\{y\}\}.}" loading="lazy"></span><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Location: Example 1.1.29">: Example 1.1.29 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Properties">Properties</h2></div>
<ul><li>The essential range of a measurable function, being the <a href="Support_(measure_theory)" title="Support (measure theory)">support of a measure</a>, is always closed.</li>
<li>The essential range ess.im(f) of a measurable function is always a subset of <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\overline {\operatorname {im} (f)}}}">
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<li>The essential image cannot be used to distinguish functions that are almost everywhere equal: If <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle f=g}">
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<li>These two facts characterise the essential image: It is the biggest set contained in the closures of <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \operatorname {im} (g)}">
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<dl><dd><dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \operatorname {ess.im} (f)=\bigcap _{f=g\,{\text{a.e.}}}{\overline {\operatorname {im} (g)}}}">
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<ul><li>The essential range satisfies <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \forall A\subseteq X:f(A)\cap \operatorname {ess.im} (f)=\emptyset \implies \mu (A)=0}">
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<li>This fact characterises the essential image: It is the <i>smallest</i> closed subset of <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \mathbb {C} }">
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<li>The <a href="Essential_supremum" class="mw-redirect" title="Essential supremum">essential supremum</a> of a real valued function equals the supremum of its essential image and the essential infimum equals the infimum of its essential range. Consequently, a function is essentially bounded if and only if its essential range is bounded.</li>
<li>The essential range of an essentially bounded function f is equal to the <a href="Spectrum_(functional_analysis)#Spectrum_of_a_unital_Banach_algebra" title="Spectrum (functional analysis)">spectrum</a> <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \sigma (f)}">
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2></div>
<ul><li>If <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \mu }">
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<li>This also illustrates that even though the essential range of a function is a subset of the closure of the range of that function, equality of the two sets need not hold.</li>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Extension">Extension</h2></div>
<p>The notion of essential range can be extended to the case of <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle f:X\to Y}">
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Essential_supremum_and_essential_infimum" class="mw-redirect" title="Essential supremum and essential infimum">Essential supremum and essential infimum</a></li>
<li><a href="Measure_(mathematics)" title="Measure (mathematics)">measure</a></li>
<li><a href="Lp_space" title="Lp space">L<sup>p</sup> space</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Absolute_continuity" title="Absolute continuity">Absolute continuity</a> <a href="Absolute_continuity_(measure_theory)" class="mw-redirect" title="Absolute continuity (measure theory)">of measures</a></li>
<li><a href="Lebesgue_integration" class="mw-redirect" title="Lebesgue integration">Lebesgue integration</a></li>
<li><a href="Lp_space" title="Lp space"><i>L</i><sup><i>p</i></sup> spaces</a></li>
<li><a href="Measure_(mathematics)" title="Measure (mathematics)">Measure</a></li>
<li><a href="Measure_space" title="Measure space">Measure space</a>
<ul><li><a href="Probability_space" title="Probability space">Probability space</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Measurable_space" title="Measurable space">Measurable space</a>/<a href="Measurable_function" title="Measurable function">function</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sets</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Almost_everywhere" title="Almost everywhere">Almost everywhere</a></li>
<li><a href="Atom_(measure_theory)" title="Atom (measure theory)">Atom</a></li>
<li><a href="Baire_set" title="Baire set">Baire set</a></li>
<li><a href="Borel_set" title="Borel set">Borel set</a>
<ul><li><a href="Borel_equivalence_relation" title="Borel equivalence relation">equivalence relation</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Standard_Borel_space" title="Standard Borel space">Borel space</a></li>
<li><a href="Carath%C3%A9odory's_criterion" title="Carathéodory's criterion">Carathéodory's criterion</a></li>
<li><a href="Cylindrical_%CF%83-algebra" title="Cylindrical σ-algebra">Cylindrical σ-algebra</a>
<ul><li><a href="Cylinder_set" title="Cylinder set">Cylinder set</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Dynkin_system" title="Dynkin system">𝜆-system</a></li>
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<ul><li><a href="Essential_infimum_and_essential_supremum" title="Essential infimum and essential supremum">infimum/supremum</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Locally_measurable_set" class="mw-redirect" title="Locally measurable set">Locally measurable</a></li>
<li><a href="Pi-system" title="Pi-system"><span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">π</span>-system</a></li>
<li><a href="%CE%A3-algebra" title="Σ-algebra">σ-algebra</a></li>
<li><a href="Non-measurable_set" title="Non-measurable set">Non-measurable set</a>
<ul><li><a href="Vitali_set" title="Vitali set">Vitali set</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Null_set" title="Null set">Null set</a></li>
<li><a href="Support_(measure_theory)" title="Support (measure theory)">Support</a></li>
<li><a href="Transverse_measure" title="Transverse measure">Transverse measure</a></li>
<li><a href="Universally_measurable_set" title="Universally measurable set">Universally measurable</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Types of <a href="Measure_(mathematics)" title="Measure (mathematics)">measures</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Atomic_measure" class="mw-redirect" title="Atomic measure">Atomic</a></li>
<li><a href="Baire_measure" title="Baire measure">Baire</a></li>
<li><a href="Banach_measure" title="Banach measure">Banach</a></li>
<li><a href="Besov_measure" title="Besov measure">Besov</a></li>
<li><a href="Borel_measure" title="Borel measure">Borel</a></li>
<li><a href="Brown_measure" title="Brown measure">Brown</a></li>
<li><a href="Complex_measure" title="Complex measure">Complex</a></li>
<li><a href="Complete_measure" title="Complete measure">Complete</a></li>
<li><a href="Content_(measure_theory)" title="Content (measure theory)">Content</a></li>
<li>(<a href="Logarithmically_concave_measure" title="Logarithmically concave measure">Logarithmically</a>) <a href="Convex_measure" title="Convex measure">Convex</a></li>
<li><a href="Decomposable_measure" title="Decomposable measure">Decomposable</a></li>
<li><a href="Discrete_measure" title="Discrete measure">Discrete</a></li>
<li><a href="Equivalence_(measure_theory)" title="Equivalence (measure theory)">Equivalent</a></li>
<li><a href="Finite_measure" title="Finite measure">Finite</a></li>
<li><a href="Inner_measure" title="Inner measure">Inner</a></li>
<li>(<a href="Quasi-invariant_measure" title="Quasi-invariant measure">Quasi-</a>) <a href="Invariant_measure" title="Invariant measure">Invariant</a></li>
<li><a href="Locally_finite_measure" title="Locally finite measure">Locally finite</a></li>
<li><a href="Maximising_measure" title="Maximising measure">Maximising</a></li>
<li><a href="Metric_outer_measure" title="Metric outer measure">Metric outer</a></li>
<li><a href="Outer_measure" title="Outer measure">Outer</a></li>
<li><a href="Perfect_measure" title="Perfect measure">Perfect</a></li>
<li><a href="Pre-measure" title="Pre-measure">Pre-measure</a></li>
<li>(<a href="Sub-probability_measure" title="Sub-probability measure">Sub-</a>) <a href="Probability_measure" title="Probability measure">Probability</a></li>
<li><a href="Projection-valued_measure" title="Projection-valued measure">Projection-valued</a></li>
<li><a href="Radon_measure" title="Radon measure">Radon</a></li>
<li><a href="Random_measure" title="Random measure">Random</a></li>
<li><a href="Regular_measure" title="Regular measure">Regular</a>
<ul><li><a href="Borel_regular_measure" title="Borel regular measure">Borel regular</a></li>
<li><a href="Inner_regular_measure" class="mw-redirect" title="Inner regular measure">Inner regular</a></li>
<li><a href="Outer_regular_measure" class="mw-redirect" title="Outer regular measure">Outer regular</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Saturated_measure" title="Saturated measure">Saturated</a></li>
<li><a href="Set_function" title="Set function">Set function</a></li>
<li><a href="%CE%A3-finite_measure" title="Σ-finite measure">σ-finite</a></li>
<li><a href="S-finite_measure" title="S-finite measure">s-finite</a></li>
<li><a href="Signed_measure" title="Signed measure">Signed</a></li>
<li><a href="Singular_measure" title="Singular measure">Singular</a></li>
<li><a href="Spectral_measure" class="mw-redirect" title="Spectral measure">Spectral</a></li>
<li><a href="Strictly_positive_measure" title="Strictly positive measure">Strictly positive</a></li>
<li><a href="Tightness_of_measures" title="Tightness of measures">Tight</a></li>
<li><a href="Vector_measure" title="Vector measure">Vector</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Particular measures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Counting_measure" title="Counting measure">Counting</a></li>
<li><a href="Dirac_measure" title="Dirac measure">Dirac</a></li>
<li><a href="Euler_measure" title="Euler measure">Euler</a></li>
<li><a href="Gaussian_measure" title="Gaussian measure">Gaussian</a></li>
<li><a href="Haar_measure" title="Haar measure">Haar</a></li>
<li><a href="Harmonic_measure" title="Harmonic measure">Harmonic</a></li>
<li><a href="Hausdorff_measure" title="Hausdorff measure">Hausdorff</a></li>
<li><a href="Intensity_measure" title="Intensity measure">Intensity</a></li>
<li><a href="Lebesgue_measure" title="Lebesgue measure">Lebesgue</a>
<ul><li><a href="Infinite-dimensional_Lebesgue_measure" title="Infinite-dimensional Lebesgue measure">Infinite-dimensional</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Positive_real_numbers#Logarithmic_measure" title="Positive real numbers">Logarithmic</a></li>
<li><a href="Product_measure" title="Product measure">Product</a>
<ul><li><a href="Projection_(measure_theory)" title="Projection (measure theory)">Projections</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Pushforward_measure" title="Pushforward measure">Pushforward</a></li>
<li><a href="Spherical_measure" title="Spherical measure">Spherical measure</a></li>
<li><a href="Tangent_measure" title="Tangent measure">Tangent</a></li>
<li><a href="Trivial_measure" title="Trivial measure">Trivial</a></li>
<li><a href="Young_measure" title="Young measure">Young</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Maps</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Measurable_function" title="Measurable function">Measurable function</a>
<ul><li><a href="Bochner_measurable_function" title="Bochner measurable function">Bochner</a></li>
<li><a href="Strongly_measurable_function" title="Strongly measurable function">Strongly</a></li>
<li><a href="Weakly_measurable_function" title="Weakly measurable function">Weakly</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Convergence: <a href="Convergence_almost_everywhere" class="mw-redirect" title="Convergence almost everywhere">almost everywhere</a></li>
<li><a href="Convergence_of_measures" title="Convergence of measures">of measures</a></li>
<li><a href="Convergence_in_measure" title="Convergence in measure">in measure</a></li>
<li><a href="Convergence_of_random_variables" title="Convergence of random variables">of random variables</a>
<ul><li><a href="Convergence_in_distribution" class="mw-redirect" title="Convergence in distribution">in distribution</a></li>
<li><a href="Convergence_in_probability" class="mw-redirect" title="Convergence in probability">in probability</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Cylinder_set_measure" title="Cylinder set measure">Cylinder set measure</a></li>
<li>Random: <a href="Random_compact_set" title="Random compact set">compact set</a></li>
<li><a href="Random_element" title="Random element">element</a></li>
<li><a href="Random_measure" title="Random measure">measure</a></li>
<li><a href="Stochastic_process" title="Stochastic process">process</a></li>
<li><a href="Random_variable" title="Random variable">variable</a></li>
<li><a href="Multivariate_random_variable" title="Multivariate random variable">vector</a></li>
<li><a href="Projection-valued_measure" title="Projection-valued measure">Projection-valued measure</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Main results</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Carath%C3%A9odory's_extension_theorem" title="Carathéodory's extension theorem">Carathéodory's extension theorem</a></li>
<li>Convergence theorems
<ul><li><a href="Dominated_convergence_theorem" title="Dominated convergence theorem">Dominated</a></li>
<li><a href="Monotone_convergence_theorem" title="Monotone convergence theorem">Monotone</a></li>
<li><a href="Vitali_convergence_theorem" title="Vitali convergence theorem">Vitali</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Decomposition theorems
<ul><li><a href="Hahn_decomposition_theorem" title="Hahn decomposition theorem">Hahn</a></li>
<li><a href="Jordan_decomposition_theorem" class="mw-redirect" title="Jordan decomposition theorem">Jordan</a></li>
<li><a href="Maharam's_theorem" title="Maharam's theorem">Maharam's</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Egorov's_theorem" title="Egorov's theorem">Egorov's</a></li>
<li><a href="Fatou's_lemma" title="Fatou's lemma">Fatou's lemma</a></li>
<li><a href="Fubini's_theorem" title="Fubini's theorem">Fubini's</a>
<ul><li><a href="Fubini%E2%80%93Tonelli_theorem" class="mw-redirect" title="Fubini–Tonelli theorem">Fubini–Tonelli</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="H%C3%B6lder's_inequality" title="Hölder's inequality">Hölder's inequality</a></li>
<li><a href="Minkowski_inequality" title="Minkowski inequality">Minkowski inequality</a></li>
<li><a href="Radon%E2%80%93Nikodym_theorem" title="Radon–Nikodym theorem">Radon–Nikodym</a></li>
<li><a href="Riesz%E2%80%93Markov%E2%80%93Kakutani_representation_theorem" title="Riesz–Markov–Kakutani representation theorem">Riesz–Markov–Kakutani representation theorem</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other results</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Disintegration_theorem" title="Disintegration theorem">Disintegration theorem</a>
<ul><li><a href="Lifting_theory" title="Lifting theory">Lifting theory</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Lebesgue's_density_theorem" title="Lebesgue's density theorem">Lebesgue's density theorem</a></li>
<li><a href="Lebesgue_differentiation_theorem" title="Lebesgue differentiation theorem">Lebesgue differentiation theorem</a></li>
<li><a href="Sard's_theorem" title="Sard's theorem">Sard's theorem</a></li>
<li><a href="Vitali%E2%80%93Hahn%E2%80%93Saks_theorem" title="Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem">Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><span style="font-size: 85%;">For <a href="Lebesgue_measure" title="Lebesgue measure">Lebesgue measure</a></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Isoperimetric_inequality" title="Isoperimetric inequality">Isoperimetric inequality</a></li>
<li><a href="Brunn%E2%80%93Minkowski_theorem" title="Brunn–Minkowski theorem">Brunn–Minkowski theorem</a>
<ul><li><a href="Milman's_reverse_Brunn%E2%80%93Minkowski_inequality" title="Milman's reverse Brunn–Minkowski inequality">Milman's reverse</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Minkowski%E2%80%93Steiner_formula" title="Minkowski–Steiner formula">Minkowski–Steiner formula</a></li>
<li><a href="Pr%C3%A9kopa%E2%80%93Leindler_inequality" title="Prékopa–Leindler inequality">Prékopa–Leindler inequality</a></li>
<li><a href="Vitale's_random_Brunn%E2%80%93Minkowski_inequality" title="Vitale's random Brunn–Minkowski inequality">Vitale's random Brunn–Minkowski inequality</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Applications & related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Convex_analysis" title="Convex analysis">Convex analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Descriptive_set_theory" title="Descriptive set theory">Descriptive set theory</a></li>
<li><a href="Probability_theory" title="Probability theory">Probability theory</a></li>
<li><a href="Real_analysis" title="Real analysis">Real analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Spectral_theory" title="Spectral theory">Spectral theory</a></li></ul>
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