Session 36. Topology in Functional Analysis

On Nikodym-Grothendieck boundedness theorem

Manuel Lopez-Pellicer, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
The talk is based on the joint work with Santiago Moll
In a recent paper, M. Valdivia has shown that if \(\Omega \) is a compact \(k\)-dimensional interval in \(\mathbb{R}^{k}\), \(\mathcal{A}\) is the algebra of Jordan measurable subsets of \(\Omega \),\ \(\mathcal{A}=\cup _{n}\mathcal{A}_{n}\), with \(\mathcal{A}_{n}\subset \mathcal{A}_{n+1}\),\ \(n\in \mathbb{N}\), then there exists \(m\in \mathbb{N}\) such that if \(H\) is a set of bounded additive complex measures defined in \(\mathcal{A}\) such that, for each \(A\in \mathcal{A}_{m}\),\ \(\sup \{\left\vert\lambda (A)\right\vert :\lambda \in H\}<\infty \), then \(\sup \{\left\vert \lambda \right\vert (\Omega ):\lambda \in H\}<\infty \), where \(\left\vert \lambda \right\vert \) is the variation of \(\lambda \). M. Valdivia says that ``The proof of this theorem can be extended to more general situations''.

We will discuss some extension of this results. In particular we will prove that if \(\mathcal{A}\) is a \(\sigma \)-algebra defined on a set \(\Omega \) and if

  • \(\mathcal{A}=\bigcup _{n_{1}}\mathcal{A}_{n_{1}}\), with \(\mathcal{A} _{n_{1}}\subset \mathcal{A}_{n_{1}+1}\), \(n_{1}\in \mathbb{N}\),
  • each \(\mathcal{A}_{n_{1}}=\cup _{n_{2}}\mathcal{A}_{n_{1},n_{2}}\), with \( \mathcal{A}_{n_{1},n_{2}}\subset \mathcal{A}_{n_{1},n_{2}+1}\), \( (n_{1},n_{2})\in \mathbb{N}^{2}\),
  • ....,
  • and each \(\mathcal{A}_{n_{1},n_{2},\cdots ,n_{p-1}}=\bigcup _{n_{p}}\mathcal{A }_{n_{1},n_{2},\cdots ,n_{p-1}n_{p}}\), with \(\mathcal{A}_{n_{1},n_{2},\cdots ,n_{p-1}n_{p}}\subset \mathcal{A}_{n_{1},n_{2},\cdots ,n_{p-1}n_{p}+1}\), \( (n_{1},n_{2},\cdots ,n_{p})\in \mathbb{N}^{p}\),
then there exists \((m_{1},m_{2},\cdots ,m_{p})\in \mathbb{N}^{p}\) such that if \(H\) is a set of bounded additive measures defined in \(\mathcal{A}\) such that for each \(A\in \mathcal{A}_{m_{1},m_{2},\cdots ,m_{p-1}m_{p}}\), \(\sup \{\left\vert \lambda (A)\right\vert :\lambda \in H\}<\infty \), then \(\sup \{\left\vert \lambda \right\vert (\Omega ):\lambda \in H\}<\infty \), where \(\left\vert \lambda \right\vert \) is the variation of \(\lambda \). Additionally, if we continue this decomposition process then there exists a sequence \((m_{q})_{q}\) such for each \(p\in \mathbb{N}\) the finite sequence \((m_{1},m_{2},\cdots ,m_{p})\) has the previous boundedness property.

Some applications of this boundedness result will be presented.

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