A continuous linear functional u : C₀(X, ℝ) →L[ℝ] ℝ is positive if u f ≥ 0
whenever f ≥ 0 pointwise.
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The premeasure of an open set U associated to a positive linear functional u:
the supremum of u f over all f : C₀(X, ℝ) with 0 ≤ f ≤ 1 and tsupport f ⊆ U compact.
This is the open-set value used to induce an outer measure (Section 1.11 of Melrose).
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A continuous function vanishing at infinity whose topological support is contained in ∅
must be identically zero.
The functional premeasure of the empty open set is zero: the only test function with
support in ∅ is the zero function.
Monotonicity of the functional premeasure on open sets: if U ⊆ V then
functionalMeasureOpen u U ≤ functionalMeasureOpen u V.
Partition-of-unity inequality for the functional premeasure: if f is a compactly
supported test function with 0 ≤ f ≤ 1 whose support is covered by finitely many open sets
U i, then u f ≤ ∑ i ∈ s, functionalMeasureOpen u (U i).
Countable subadditivity of the functional premeasure on open sets: for any sequence of
open sets U i, functionalMeasureOpen u (⋃ U i) ≤ ∑' i, functionalMeasureOpen u (U i).
The outer measure on X induced by a positive linear functional u via its values on
open sets (Section 1.11/1.12 of Melrose). Used as the starting point for constructing the
associated Radon measure via Caratheodory's theorem.
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functionalOuterMeasure u hu satisfies the abstract axioms of an outer measure
(monotonicity, σ-subadditivity, and vanishing on the empty set).