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</p><p>In <a href="Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>, and in particular <a href="Mathematical_analysis#Measure_theory" title="Mathematical analysis">measure theory</a>, a <b>measurable function</b> is a function between the underlying sets of two <a href="Measurable_space" title="Measurable space">measurable spaces</a> that preserves the structure of the spaces: the <a href="Preimage" class="mw-redirect" title="Preimage">preimage</a> of any <a href="Measure_(mathematics)" title="Measure (mathematics)">measurable</a> set is measurable. This is in direct analogy to the definition that a <a href="Continuous_function" title="Continuous function">continuous</a> function between <a href="Topological_space" title="Topological space">topological spaces</a> <a href="Morphism" title="Morphism">preserves</a> the topological structure: the preimage of any <a href="Open_set" title="Open set">open set</a> is open. In <a href="Real_analysis" title="Real analysis">real analysis</a>, measurable functions are used in the definition of the <a href="Lebesgue_integration" class="mw-redirect" title="Lebesgue integration">Lebesgue integral</a>. In <a href="Probability_theory" title="Probability theory">probability theory</a>, a measurable function on a <a href="Probability_space" title="Probability space">probability space</a> is known as a <a href="Random_variable" title="Random variable">random variable</a>.
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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,\Sigma )}">
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</math></span><img src="./63c4fcf15808c3dbf52cc4b3fd473e97e231f53f.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:6.501ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle (X,\Sigma )}" loading="lazy"></span> and <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,\mathrm {T} )}">
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</math></span><img src="./38ad6b832e33b88ec69c140b994139d180c747e8.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:6.295ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle (Y,\mathrm {T} )}" loading="lazy"></span> be measurable spaces, meaning that <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}">
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</math></span><img src="./59f59b7c3e6fdb1d0365a494b81fb9a696138c36.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.33ex; height:1.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \sigma }" loading="lazy"></span>-algebras</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 }">
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</math></span><img src="./62cd2ca7157c8ae9fcf10598339b774c8294d5ce.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:2.325ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \mathrm {T} .}" loading="lazy"></span> A function <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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</math></span><img src="./1561363cb166f3b821c651d37c0da466481af28a.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:6.294ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle E\in \mathrm {T} }" loading="lazy"></span> the pre-image 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 E}">
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<mi mathvariant="normal">Σ<!-- Σ --></mi>
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \Sigma }</annotation>
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</math></span><img src="./9e1f558f53cda207614abdf90162266c70bc5c1e.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.678ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \Sigma }" loading="lazy"></span>; that is, for all <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 E\in \mathrm {T} }">
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<span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-block"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-display mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math display="block" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle f^{-1}(E):=\{x\in X\mid f(x)\in E\}\in \Sigma .}">
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</p><p>That is, <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)\subseteq \Sigma ,}">
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<span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-block"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-display mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math display="block" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle f\colon (X,\Sigma )\rightarrow (Y,\mathrm {T} ).}">
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to emphasize the dependency on the <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 }">
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Term_usage_variations">Term usage variations</h2></div>
<p>The choice 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 \sigma }">
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</math></span><img src="./c6ff6a3dc2982018ff20f1d2c927afc74a217be6.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:2.325ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \mathbb {C} ,}" loading="lazy"></span> or other topological spaces, the <a href="Borel_algebra" class="mw-redirect" title="Borel algebra">Borel algebra</a> (generated by all the open sets) is a common choice. Some authors define <b>measurable functions</b> as exclusively real-valued ones with respect to the Borel algebra.<sup id="cite_ref-strichartz_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-strichartz-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>If the values of the function lie in an <a href="Infinite-dimensional_vector_space" class="mw-redirect" title="Infinite-dimensional vector space">infinite-dimensional vector space</a>, other non-equivalent definitions of measurability, such as <a href="Weak_measurability" class="mw-redirect" title="Weak measurability">weak measurability</a> and <a href="Bochner_measurability" class="mw-redirect" title="Bochner measurability">Bochner measurability</a>, exist.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_classes_of_measurable_functions">Notable classes of measurable functions</h2></div>
<ul><li>Random variables are by definition measurable functions defined on probability spaces.</li>
<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 (X,\Sigma )}">
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<li>A <a href="Lebesgue_measurable" class="mw-redirect" title="Lebesgue measurable">Lebesgue measurable</a> function is a measurable function <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:(\mathbb {R} ,{\mathcal {L}})\to (\mathbb {C} ,{\mathcal {B}}_{\mathbb {C} }),}">
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</math></span><img src="./8f4d5d3ec97eee8b915d3b14d3fb38579ee639d2.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:2.325ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \mathbb {C} .}" loading="lazy"></span> Lebesgue measurable functions are of interest in <a href="Mathematical_analysis" title="Mathematical analysis">mathematical analysis</a> because they can be integrated. In the case <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 \mathbb {R} ,}">
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Properties_of_measurable_functions">Properties of measurable functions</h2></div>
<ul><li>The sum and product of two complex-valued measurable functions are measurable.<sup id="cite_ref-folland_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-folland-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> So is the quotient, so long as there is no division by zero.<sup id="cite_ref-strichartz_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-strichartz-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
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<li>The (pointwise) <a href="Supremum" class="mw-redirect" title="Supremum">supremum</a>, <a href="Infimum" class="mw-redirect" title="Infimum">infimum</a>, <a href="Limit_superior" class="mw-redirect" title="Limit superior">limit superior</a>, and <a href="Limit_inferior" class="mw-redirect" title="Limit inferior">limit inferior</a> of a sequence (viz., countably many) of real-valued measurable functions are all measurable as well.<sup id="cite_ref-strichartz_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-strichartz-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-royden_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-royden-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>The <a href="Pointwise" title="Pointwise">pointwise</a> limit of a sequence of measurable functions <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_{n}:X\to Y}">
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Non-measurable_functions">Non-measurable functions</h2></div>
<p>Real-valued functions encountered in applications tend to be measurable; however, it is not difficult to prove the existence of non-measurable functions. Such proofs rely on the <a href="Axiom_of_choice" title="Axiom of choice">axiom of choice</a> in an essential way, in the sense that <a href="Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_theory" title="Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory">Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory</a> without the axiom of choice does not prove the existence of such functions.
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<ul><li><a href="Bochner_measurable_function" title="Bochner measurable function">Bochner measurable function</a></li>
<li><a href="Bochner_space" title="Bochner space">Bochner space</a>&nbsp;– Type of topological space</li>
<li><a href="Lp_space" title="Lp space">Lp space</a>&nbsp;– Function spaces generalizing finite-dimensional p norm spaces - Vector spaces of measurable functions: the <a href="Lp_space" title="Lp space"><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 L^{p}}">
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<li><a href="Measure-preserving_dynamical_system" title="Measure-preserving dynamical system">Measure-preserving dynamical system</a>&nbsp;– Subject of study in ergodic theory</li>
<li><a href="Vector_measure" title="Vector measure">Vector measure</a></li>
<li><a href="Weakly_measurable_function" title="Weakly measurable function">Weakly measurable function</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="Measurable_space" title="Measurable space">Measurable space</a>/</li></ul>
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<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>
<li><a href="Essential_range" title="Essential range">Essential range</a>
<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>)&nbsp;<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>)&nbsp;<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>)&nbsp;<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>
<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&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;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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<ul><li><a href="Banach_space" title="Banach space">Banach</a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;<a href="Hilbert_space" title="Hilbert space">Hilbert spaces</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>
<ul><li><a href="Lebesgue_measure" title="Lebesgue measure">Lebesgue</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Measure_space" title="Measure space">Measure space</a></li>
<li><a href="Measurable_space" title="Measurable space">Measurable space</a>/</li>
<li><a href="Minkowski_distance" title="Minkowski distance">Minkowski distance</a></li>
<li><a href="Sequence_space" title="Sequence space">Sequence spaces</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="L1_space" class="mw-redirect" title="L1 space"><i>L</i><sup>1</sup> spaces</a></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="Integrable_function" class="mw-redirect" title="Integrable function">Integrable function</a></li>
<li><a href="Lebesgue_integration" class="mw-redirect" title="Lebesgue integration">Lebesgue integration</a></li>
<li><a href="Taxicab_geometry" title="Taxicab geometry">Taxicab geometry</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="L2_space" class="mw-redirect" title="L2 space"><i>L</i><sup>2</sup> spaces</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="Bessel's_inequality" title="Bessel's inequality">Bessel's</a></li>
<li><a href="Cauchy%E2%80%93Schwarz_inequality" title="Cauchy–Schwarz inequality">Cauchy–Schwarz</a></li>
<li><a href="Euclidean_distance" title="Euclidean distance">Euclidean distance</a></li>
<li><a href="Hilbert_space" title="Hilbert space">Hilbert space</a></li>
<li><a href="Parseval's_identity" title="Parseval's identity">Parseval's identity</a></li>
<li><a href="Polarization_identity" title="Polarization identity">Polarization identity</a></li>
<li><a href="Pythagorean_theorem" title="Pythagorean theorem">Pythagorean theorem</a></li>
<li><a href="Square-integrable_function" title="Square-integrable function">Square-integrable function</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="L-infinity" title="L-infinity"><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 L^{\infty }}">
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<ul><li><a href="Bounded_function" title="Bounded function">Bounded function</a></li>
<li><a href="Chebyshev_distance" title="Chebyshev distance">Chebyshev distance</a></li>
<li><a href="Infimum_and_supremum" title="Infimum and supremum">Infimum and supremum</a>
<ul><li><a href="Essential_infimum_and_essential_supremum" title="Essential infimum and essential supremum">Essential</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Uniform_norm" title="Uniform norm">Uniform norm</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="Almost_everywhere" title="Almost everywhere">Almost everywhere</a></li>
<li><a href="Convergence_almost_everywhere" class="mw-redirect" title="Convergence almost everywhere">Convergence almost everywhere</a></li>
<li><a href="Convergence_in_measure" title="Convergence in measure">Convergence in measure</a></li>
<li><a href="Function_space" title="Function space">Function space</a></li>
<li><a href="Integral_transform" title="Integral transform">Integral transform</a></li>
<li><a href="Locally_integrable_function" title="Locally integrable function">Locally integrable function</a></li>

<li><a href="Symmetric_decreasing_rearrangement" title="Symmetric decreasing rearrangement">Symmetric decreasing rearrangement</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Inequalities</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="Babenko%E2%80%93Beckner_inequality" title="Babenko–Beckner inequality">Babenko–Beckner</a></li>
<li><a href="Chebyshev's_inequality" title="Chebyshev's inequality">Chebyshev's</a></li>
<li><a href="Clarkson's_inequalities" title="Clarkson's inequalities">Clarkson's</a></li>
<li><a href="Hanner's_inequalities" title="Hanner's inequalities">Hanner's</a></li>
<li><a href="Hausdorff%E2%80%93Young_inequality" title="Hausdorff–Young inequality">Hausdorff–Young</a></li>
<li><a href="H%C3%B6lder's_inequality" title="Hölder's inequality">Hölder's</a></li>
<li><a href="Markov's_inequality" title="Markov's inequality">Markov's</a></li>
<li><a href="Minkowski_inequality" title="Minkowski inequality">Minkowski</a></li>
<li><a href="Young's_convolution_inequality" title="Young's convolution inequality">Young's convolution</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Results</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="Marcinkiewicz_interpolation_theorem" title="Marcinkiewicz interpolation theorem">Marcinkiewicz interpolation theorem</a></li>
<li><a href="Plancherel_theorem" title="Plancherel theorem">Plancherel theorem</a></li>
<li><a href="Riemann%E2%80%93Lebesgue_lemma" title="Riemann–Lebesgue lemma">Riemann–Lebesgue</a></li>
<li><a href="Riesz%E2%80%93Fischer_theorem" title="Riesz–Fischer theorem">Riesz–Fischer theorem</a></li>
<li><a href="Riesz%E2%80%93Thorin_theorem" title="Riesz–Thorin theorem">Riesz–Thorin theorem</a></li></ul>
</div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><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&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;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="Bochner_space" title="Bochner space">Bochner space</a></li>
<li><a href="Fourier_analysis" title="Fourier analysis">Fourier analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Lorentz_space" title="Lorentz space">Lorentz space</a></li>
<li><a href="Probability_theory" title="Probability theory">Probability theory</a></li>
<li><a href="Quasinorm" title="Quasinorm">Quasinorm</a></li>
<li><a href="Real_analysis" title="Real analysis">Real analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Sobolev_space" title="Sobolev space">Sobolev space</a></li>
<li><a href="*-algebra" title="*-algebra">*-algebra</a>
<ul><li><a href="C*-algebra" title="C*-algebra">C*-algebra</a></li>
<li><a href="Von_Neumann_algebra" title="Von Neumann algebra">Von Neumann</a></li></ul></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="History_of_the_function_concept" title="History of the function concept">History</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_mathematical_functions" title="List of mathematical functions">List of specific functions</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Boolean-valued_function" title="Boolean-valued function"><span class="texhtml">X → 𝔹</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Ordered_pair" title="Ordered pair"><span class="texhtml">𝔹 → X</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Boolean_function" title="Boolean function"><span class="texhtml">𝔹ⁿ → X</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Integer-valued_function" title="Integer-valued function"><span class="texhtml">X → ℤ</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Sequence" title="Sequence"><span class="texhtml">ℤ → X</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Real-valued_function" title="Real-valued function"><span class="texhtml">X → ℝ</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Function_of_a_real_variable" title="Function of a real variable"><span class="texhtml">ℝ → X</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Function_of_several_real_variables" title="Function of several real variables"><span class="texhtml">ℝⁿ → X</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Complex-valued_function" class="mw-redirect" title="Complex-valued function"><span class="texhtml">X → ℂ</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Function_of_a_complex_variable" class="mw-redirect" title="Function of a complex variable"><span class="texhtml">ℂ → X</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Function_of_several_complex_variables" title="Function of several complex variables"><span class="texhtml">ℂⁿ → X</span></a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Constant_function" title="Constant function">Constant</a></li>
<li><a href="Identity_function" title="Identity function">Identity</a></li>
<li><a href="Linear_map" title="Linear map">Linear</a></li>
<li><a href="Polynomial" title="Polynomial">Polynomial</a></li>
<li><a href="Rational_function" title="Rational function">Rational</a></li>
<li><a href="Algebraic_function" title="Algebraic function">Algebraic</a></li>
<li><a href="Analytic_function" title="Analytic function">Analytic</a></li>
<li><a href="Smooth_function" class="mw-redirect" title="Smooth function">Smooth</a></li>
<li><a href="Continuous_function" title="Continuous function">Continuous</a></li>

<li><a href="Injective_function" title="Injective function">Injective</a></li>
<li><a href="Surjective_function" title="Surjective function">Surjective</a></li>
<li><a href="Bijection" title="Bijection">Bijective</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Restriction_(mathematics)" title="Restriction (mathematics)">Restriction</a></li>
<li><a href="Function_composition" title="Function composition">Composition</a></li>
<li><a href="Lambda_calculus" title="Lambda calculus">λ</a></li>
<li><a href="Inverse_function" title="Inverse function">Inverse</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Relation_(mathematics)" title="Relation (mathematics)">Relation</a> (<a href="Binary_relation" title="Binary relation">Binary relation</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Set-valued_function" title="Set-valued function">Set-valued</a></li>
<li><a href="Multivalued_function" title="Multivalued function">Multivalued</a></li>
<li><a href="Partial_function" title="Partial function">Partial</a></li>
<li><a href="Implicit_function" title="Implicit function">Implicit</a></li>
<li><a href="Function_space" title="Function space">Space</a></li>
<li><a href="Higher-order_function" title="Higher-order function">Higher-order</a></li>
<li><a href="Morphism" title="Morphism">Morphism</a></li>
<li><a href="Functor" title="Functor">Functor</a></li></ul>
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