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Weakly measurable need not be strongly measurable

Statement refuted

Assume the Axiom of Choice. Put I=[0,1], give it the trace of the Lebesgue sigma-algebra and restricted Lebesgue measure, and define

H=2(I)={y:IK:supFI finitetFy(t)2<},

where K is either R or C and the norm is the square root of the displayed supremum. For tI, let et be the coordinate unit vector. Then the map

f:IH,f(t)=et,

is weakly measurable but is not strongly measurable.

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Counterexample

technique · direct

Given: AC and the displayed scalar field, interval, normed function space, and map.

1.1

Verify that the target is a Banach space. Finite-dimensional Cauchy--Schwarz gives the triangle inequality after taking the supremum over finite F; homogeneity and definiteness are immediate, so the displayed formula is a norm. If (yn) is Cauchy in this norm, then every coordinate sequence (yn(t)) is Cauchy. Let y(t)=limnyn(t). Given ε>0, choose N such that ymyN<ε for mN. For every finite F, passage to the scalar limit gives tFy(t)yN(t)2ε2. Taking the supremum shows yyNH with norm at most ε. Hence yH and yny, so [L3] makes H Banach. This also proves directly that eset=2 whenever st.

givenL3
2.1

Every scalar evaluation of the range has countable support. Fix φH and put at=φ(et). For a finite FI, apply φ to tFatet (with conjugation trivial over R) to obtain

A1L1step 1.1

tFat2φ(tFat2)1/2,

and therefore tFat2φ2. For each m1, the set Cm={t:at1/m} is finite, since arbitrarily large finite subsets would violate this bound. The support of (at) is mCm, which is countable by [L1].

3.1

Prove weak measurability. The trace measure space on I is complete: any subset of a trace-null set is an ambient subset of a Lebesgue-null set and hence is Lebesgue measurable by [L1]. For the fixed φ, the scalar function φf:tat vanishes off the countable null support from step 2.1. The inverse image of an open scalar set is either a subset of that support or the complement of such a subset, according as the open set omits or contains zero. Completeness makes every such inverse image measurable. Since φ was arbitrary, f is weakly measurable.

L1step 2.1
4.1

Rule out an essentially separable range. Suppose there were a null NI and a separable closed subspace YH containing every et for tIN. The set IN is uncountable: if it were countable, [L1] would make both it and N null, contrary to μ(I)=1. Let D be an at most countable dense subset of Y. For each tIN, assign the first member of a fixed enumeration of D lying within 2/3 of et. The assignment is injective, because one point of D cannot lie within that radius of two vectors at distance 2. This would make IN countable, a contradiction. Thus the range is not essentially separably valued.

A1L1L2step 1.1step 3.1discharge-contradiction
5.1

Conclude failure of strong measurability and audit boundaries. [A1, L2, step 1.1, step 3.1, step 4.1] The trace measure is complete, H is Banach, and step 3.1 proves weak measurability, but step 4.1 disproves the other necessary condition in [L2]. Hence f is not strongly measurable. Every coordinate vector has norm one; the zero functional has empty support and gives the constant zero scalar map; the real and complex cases are both covered by the finite coefficient calculation. The positive-measure interval, rather than a singleton or a null domain, is essential to the failed conclusion. AC is used through [L1], [L2], and the displayed simultaneous countability arguments only.

givenA1L1L2step 1.1step 3.1step 4.1

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