A descriptive definition of the KH-Stieltjes integral (Q1978845)

The Kurzweil-Henstock-Stieltjes integral \(\int _a^bf dU\) based on integral sums of the form \[ S(f,U,D)=\sum f(x_i) (U(b_i) - U(a_i)) \] for a tagged partition \(\{(x_i,[a_i,b_i])\), \(i=1,\dots , r\}\) is studied in the paper. The indefinite integral \(F(x) = \int _a^x f dU\) with respect to a continuous \(\text{VBG}^o\) function \(U:[a,b] \to \mathbb R\) is characterized by means of four different properties of \(F\) (``differentiability'', generalized lipschitzianity, generalized absolute continuity, and generalized boundedness of variation).