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Lebesgue Point


A Lebesgue point of a locally integrable function f on R^n is a point x at which there is a finite value f^*(x) satisfying

 lim_(rv0)1/(|B(x,r)|)int_(B(x,r))|f(y)-f^*(x)|dy=0.

Here B(x,r) is an open ball and |B(x,r)| is its Lebesgue measure. The value f^*(x) is uniquely determined and is unchanged by altering f on a set of measure zero. Almost every point is a Lebesgue point, and f^*=f almost everywhere (Stein 1993). For a continuous function, every point is a Lebesgue point with f^*(x)=f(x). This representative makes precise the initial values in the Schrödinger pointwise convergence problem.


See also

Lebesgue Integral, Lebesgue Measure, Schroedinger Pointwise Convergence Problem

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References

Stein, E. M. Harmonic Analysis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Lebesgue Point." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/LebesguePoint.html

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