Measure Theory and Fine Properties of Functions

LawrenceCraig Evans, Lawrence Craig Evans, Ronald F. Gariepy

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781351432825
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Mathematics
• Subtopic: Arithmetic
• Index: Mathematics

This book provides a detailed examination of the central assertions of measure theory in n-dimensional Euclidean space and emphasizes the roles of Hausdorff measure and the capacity in characterizing the fine properties of sets and functions. Topics covered include a quick review of abstract measure theory, theorems and differentiation in Mn, lower Hausdorff measures, area and coarea formulas for Lipschitz mappings and related change-of-variable formulas, and Sobolev functions and functions of bounded variation.The text provides complete proofs of many key results omitted from other books, including Besicovitch's Covering Theorem, Rademacher's Theorem (on the differentiability a.e. of Lipschitz functions), the Area and Coarea Formulas, the precise structure of Sobolev and BV functions, the precise structure of sets of finite perimeter, and Alexandro's Theorem (on the twice differentiability a.e. of convex functions).Topics are carefully selected and the proofs succinct, but complete, which makes this book ideal reading for applied mathematicians and graduate students in applied mathematics.

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General Measure Theory

This chapter is primarily a review of standard measure theory, with particular attention paid to Radon measures on ℝⁿ.

Section 1.1 through 1.4 are a rapid recounting of abstract measure theory. In Section 1.5 we establish Vitali’s and Besicovitch’s Covering Theorems, the latter being the key for the Lebesgue-Besicovitch Differentiation Theorem for Radon measures in Sections 1.6 and 1.7. Section 1.8 provides a vector-valued version of Riesz’s Representation Theorem. In Section 1.9 we study weak compactness for sequences of measures and functions.

1.1 Measures and measurable functions

1.1.1 Measures; Approximation by open and compact sets

Although we intend later to work almost exclusively in ℝⁿ, it is most convenient to sta...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• 1 General Measure Theory
• 2 Hausdorff Measure
• 3 Area and Coarea Formulas
• 4 Sobolev Functions
• 5 BV Functions and Sets of Finite Perimeter
• 6 Differentiability and Approximation by C¹ Functions
• Bibliography
• Notation
• Index