Repeated quasi-integration on locally compact spaces

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Abstract: When X is locally compact, a quasi-integral (also called a quasi-linear functional) on Cc(X) is a homogeneous, positive functional that is only assumed to be linear on singly-generated subalgebras. We study simple and almost simple quasi-integrals, i.e., quasi-integrals whose corresponding compact-finite topological measures assume exactly two values. We present a criterion for repeated quasi-integration (i.e., iterated integration with respect to topological measures) to yield a quasi-linear functional. We find a criterion for a double quasi-integral to be simple. We describe how a product of topological measures acts on open and compact sets. We show that different orders of integration in repeated quasi-integrals give the same quasi-integral if and only if the corresponding topological measures are both measures or one of the corresponding topological measures is a positive scalar multiple of a point mass.


Let \(C_c(X)\) be the space of continuous functions with compact support in \(X\), a locally compact Hausdorff space. A quasi-integral \(\rho\) (also we say quasi-linear functional) is a real map on \(C_c(X)\), homogeneous, additive, and positive. A topological measure on \(X\) is a set of positive functions on the set of open sets union of the set of closed sets in \(X\) and it is simple when it takes only two values zero and one. In the third section, the author studies (almost) simple quasi-integrals, i.e., the corresponding topological measures are simple. Also, she presents equivalent conditions for a quasi-integral to be (almost) simple. In the fourth section, she studies repeated quasi-integrals and particularly she provides criteria for repeated quasi-integration to produce a quasi-linear functional and for a double quasi-integral to be (almost) simple. In the fifth section, the author furnishes formulas describing how a product of compact-finite topological measures acts on open and compact sets.











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