Lecture 10

We did Tao 8.2.

Main result is monotone convergence theorem: given a monotone increasing sequence of non-negative measurable functions $f_n$, we have $$ \int \lim f_n = \lim \int f_n$$ or equivalently $$ \int \sup f_n = \sup \int f_n$$ The $\geq $ direction is easy, the $\leq$ direction is hard, which requires 3 steps lowering of the LHS $\int \sup f_n$:

After the three lowering, we get $(1-\epsilon) s 1_{E_n} \leq f_n$, hence $$ \int (1-\epsilon) s 1_{E_n} \leq \int f_n \leq \sup \int f_n$$ Then, we reverse the above lowering process, by taking limit, or sup over all possible choices

$$\int (1-\epsilon) s \leq \sup \int f_n $$

Then, we did some applications. For example, summation and integration can commute now (for non-negative measurable functions).