Abstract Treatment of Integration (Q4240761)

The author says that \(T\) is an integral if \(T\) assigns a real number \(T(f,J)\) to a compact interval \(J\subset\mathbb{R}\) and a function \(f\in K(T,J)\), the latter set consisting of some real-valued functions \(f\) measurable on \(J\), iff \(T\) is linear on \(K(T,J)\), \(f\in K(T,J)\) and \(J'\subset J\) imply \(f\in K(T,J')\), \(f\in K(T,J)\) and \(T(f,J)= \int_J f\) whenever \(f\in L(J)\), i.e., \(f\) is Lebesgue integrable on \(J\), \(f\in K(T,[a, b])\cap K(T,[b,c])\) implies \(f\in K(T,[a,c])\) and \(T(f,[a,c])= T(f,[a,b])+ T(f,[b, c])\), \(f\in K(T,J)\) and \(f\geq 0\) imply \(f\in L(J)\), \(f\in K(T,[a, b])\) implies that \(F(x)= T(f,[a, x])\) is continuous on \(J\) and \(F(a)= 0\). The purpose of the paper is to characterize various integrals (e.g., general Denjoy integral) by suitable conditions on \(T\), and to investigate (derivability etc.) properties of integrals.