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Finiteness and a uniform bound for the entries of the inertia tensor about an arbitrary point
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()). Let be a measure on that is finite and bounded: and for some real (Open ball, closed ball and sphere in a metric space), and let . With the shifted integrands of The inertia tensor of a finite bounded Borel measure about any point of (The Euclidean inner product on for the norm), then:
- for all the function is Borel measurable and -integrable (Borel measurable and Lebesgue measurable functions on );
- each entry is a finite real number and
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A finite bounded Borel measure on with , and a point .
Under every continuous map is Borel measurable (Continuous functions on Euclidean spaces are Borel measurable, Borel measurable and Lebesgue measurable functions on ), and sums, scalar multiples and pointwise products of measurable real-valued functions are measurable (Arithmetic and lattice operations preserve measurability whenever they are defined).
Estimates on the ball: for one has and therefore by the triangle inequality for the Euclidean norm (The inner-product norm is definite, homogeneous, and satisfies the triangle inequality, The Euclidean inner product on ); and for each index one has , because each term of a finite sum of nonnegative reals is at most the sum (Laws of finite sums and finite products, clause 4, The Euclidean inner product on ).
The elementary inequality for reals follows from by squaring rules (Squares of nonzero elements are positive, Absolute value in an ordered field).
Nonnegative integrals: the constant function with value has via the simple-function integral; the nonnegative integral is monotone and homogeneous for nonnegative scalars (The nonnegative Lebesgue integral, The integral of a nonnegative simple function, Monotonicity and nonnegative homogeneity of the nonnegative integral).
A real measurable function with is -integrable, and then (Integrable real and complex functions, and their integrals, The modulus of an integral is bounded by the integral of the modulus, Integral over a measurable subset).
Indefinite integrals and null sets (The indefinite integral of a nonnegative measurable function is a measure, A nonnegative integral over a null set vanishes, Integral over a measurable subset): for every nonnegative measurable the set function is a measure, so for disjoint measurable ; and if is -null then .
Proof
Proof technique: direct; prove measurability, bound the shifted integrand pointwise on the support ball by a constant, and integrate the constant.
Measurability: the coordinate maps , the identity maps , and are continuous, hence Borel measurable by [L1]; sums and products of these measurable functions are measurable by [L1], so each is Borel measurable.
Pointwise bound on the support ball: for , by [L2] and [L3],
Integrability and the bound: the function is nonnegative and measurable by step 1.1, so [L6] applied to the disjoint measurable sets and , the latter -null, gives . On the integrand is bounded by the constant by step 1.2, so monotonicity in [L4] applied to the pointwise inequality , and the constant-value formula, give . By step 1.1 and [L5] the function is -integrable, its integral is a finite real number, and .
Remarks
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The bound is uniform in the shape of the measure: it uses only the support radius , the shift and the total mass , not the detailed distribution. For it reproduces the bound of the shifted integrand computed at the origin.
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The Axiom of Countable Choice is used exactly once, in [L1], to obtain the Borel measurability of the continuous integrands; every later consumer of this finiteness statement carries the assumption explicitly.
Depends on
The inertia tensor of a finite bounded Borel measure about any point of
Mass distributions on : total mass, first moment and inertia matrix
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
Continuous functions on Euclidean spaces are Borel measurable
Borel measurable and Lebesgue measurable functions on
Arithmetic and lattice operations preserve measurability whenever they are defined
Integral over a measurable subset
The nonnegative Lebesgue integral
The integral of a nonnegative simple function
Integrable real and complex functions, and their integrals
Monotonicity and nonnegative homogeneity of the nonnegative integral
The modulus of an integral is bounded by the integral of the modulus
Open ball, closed ball and sphere in a metric space
The Euclidean inner product on
The inner-product norm is definite, homogeneous, and satisfies the triangle inequality
Laws of finite sums and finite products
Squares of nonzero elements are positive
Absolute value in an ordered field
The indefinite integral of a nonnegative measurable function is a measure
A nonnegative integral over a null set vanishes
Dependency tree · 2 levels
Sources
- D. Tong, Classical Dynamics (Cambridge lecture notes, 2015), §3.2.1, Eqs. (3.25)-(3.26), printed pp. 52-53: the shifted-integrand expansion whose boundedness makes the displaced inertia tensor finite for a bounded body
- K. Likharev, Essential Graduate Physics: Classical Mechanics, Chapter 4 Section 4.2, Eqs. (4.27)-(4.28), printed page 6 of Chapter 4 (PDF page 60): the shifted inertia integral is a finite combination of second moments of a bounded body