Any continuous function vanishing at infinity can be uniformly approximated to within ε
by a continuous function of compact support, via a Urysohn-type cutoff.
Uniqueness in Riesz representation: two Jordan decompositions of the same continuous linear
functional on C₀(X, ℝ) give the same signed measure (on every measurable set).
Restrict a positive continuous linear functional on C₀(X, ℝ) to the subspace of compactly
supported continuous functions, producing a positive linear functional on C_c(X, ℝ).
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The Riesz measure obtained from a positive continuous linear functional on C₀(X, ℝ) is
finite, with total mass bounded by ‖u‖.
A continuous linear functional on C₀(X, ℝ) that agrees with integration against a finite
measure on every compactly supported continuous function in fact agrees with it on all of
C₀(X, ℝ).
Melrose Theorem 4.12 (Riesz representation): every continuous linear functional on
C₀(X, ℝ) is uniquely represented as the difference of integrals against two regular finite
Borel measures μP - μN on a locally compact metric space.