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The Riemann integral over a Jordan set is independent of the bounding rectangle

Statement

The definition of Ef\int_E f is independent of the chosen bounding rectangle.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: Nondegenerate bounding rectangles Q1,Q2Q_1,Q_2 for EE.

[L1]

There is a nondegenerate rectangle QQ that contains both Q1,Q2Q_1,Q_2 strictly in every coordinate: decrease each of the finitely many lower endpoints and increase each upper endpoint by any fixed positive margin (Axis-parallel rectangles in Rm\mathbb{R}^m and their volume).

[L2]

Coordinate-slice additivity, including its converse integrability clause, is part of Linearity, monotonicity, the absolute-value estimate and coordinate-slice additivity for the Riemann integral in Rm\mathbb{R}^m.

[L3]

A bounded function on a nondegenerate rectangle is integrable when its discontinuity set is null (Lebesgue's criterion in Rm\mathbb{R}^m: a bounded function on a closed nondegenerate rectangle is Riemann integrable iff its discontinuity set is null), and the indicator of a Jordan measurable set integrates to its Jordan content (A bounded set is Jordan measurable iff its indicator is Riemann integrable, and the integral is its Jordan content).

Proof

technique · direct
1.1

Extend the zero extension on QiQ_i further by zero to QQ. Cut QQ at the lower and upper endpoint of QiQ_i in each coordinate. The strict containment in [L1] and nondegeneracy of QiQ_i make every cut strictly interior. On every added nondegenerate subrectangle the restriction is zero away from the finitely many coordinate faces of QiQ_i; only shared boundary points may retain nonzero values.

L1given
2.1

Every bounded piece of a coordinate hyperplane has content zero: subdivide its bounded (m1)(m-1)-dimensional coordinate ranges into cubes of side at most 1/ι(N)1/\iota(N), and thicken the fixed coordinate by the same amount. The number of cubes grows at most as a fixed multiple of ι(N)m1\iota(N)^{m-1}, so their total mm-volume is at most a fixed multiple of 1/ι(N)1/\iota(N), which can be made arbitrarily small (Measure zero and content zero in Rm\mathbb{R}^m by countable and finite cube covers, For every ε>0\varepsilon > 0 in a complete ordered field there is a natural n1n \ge 1 with 1/n<ε1/n < \varepsilon). Finite unions preserve this estimate. Thus the exceptional face set HH from step 1.1 is Jordan measurable with content zero, and [L3] gives 1H=0\int 1_H=0.

step 1.1L3
3.1

On each added subrectangle the extended function is bounded and is zero off HH, so its discontinuities lie in the null set HH. It is integrable by [L3]. If fB|f|\le B, then hB1H|h|\le B1_H; monotonicity and the absolute-value estimate in [L2] give hhB1H=0\left|\int h\right|\le\int|h|\le B\int1_H=0. Hence every added subrectangle has integral 00.

step 1.1step 2.1L2L3
4.1

Repeated coordinate-slice additivity [L2] now says that the extension is integrable on QQ exactly when it is integrable on QiQ_i, and its integral equals the QiQ_i-integral because every added integral is 00. Applying this to i=1,2i=1,2 gives the same integrability decision and value in both rectangles.

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