Riemann-Stieltjes积分,实质是用α-length代替实数轴长度,很多积分的性质没有变化.
Exercise 11.8.1. Prove Lemma 11.8.4.
Lemma 11.8.4 Let be a bounded interval, let
be a function defined on some domain
which contains
, and let
be a partition of
. Then we have
.
Solution: We prove this by induction on . More precisely, we let
be the property that whenever
is a bounded interval, and whenever
is a partition of
with cardinality
, that
.
The case and
are all easy to prove. Now suppose inductively that
is true for
, let
be a bounded interval, and
be a partition of
with cardinality
.
If is the empty set or a point, then all the intervals in
must also be either the empty set or a point and so every interval has length zero and the claim is trivial. Thus we will assume that
is an interval of the form
or
.
Let us first suppose that , i.e.,
is either
or
. Since
, we know that one of the intervals
in
contains
. Since
is contained in
, it must therefore be of the form
, or
for some real number
, with
(in the latter case of
, we set
). In particular, this means that the set
is also an interval of the form
when
, or a point or empty set when
. Either way, we easily see that
On the other hand, since forms a partition of
, we see that
forms a partition of
, By the induction hypothesis, we thus have
Combining these two identities, we obtain
Now suppose that , i.e., I is either
or
, Then one of the intervals
also is of the form
or
. In particular, this means that the set
is also an interval of the form
when
, or a point or empty set when
. The rest of the argument then proceeds as above.
Exercise 11.8.2. State and prove a version of Proposition 11.2.13 for the Riemann-Stieltjes integral.
Solution: Proposition: Let be a bounded interval, and let
be a function. Suppose that
and
are partitions of
such that
is piecewise constant both with respect to
and with respect to
. Then
.
Proof: By Lemma 11.2.7, we know is piecewise constant with respect to
, thus the value
is well defined. Now choose any , then
is a partition of
, and
is constant with constant value
on both
and all elements of
, thus by Theorem 11.1.13 we have
, and
Also, consider the set , for any
, by definition we can find a
and a
s.t.
, so the two sets are equal. Thus
Similarly we can prove , and the statement is proved.
Exercise 11.8.3. State and prove a version of Theorem 11.2.16 for the Riemann-Stieltjes integral.
Solution: Proposition: Let be a bounded interval, and let
and
be piecewise constant functions on
. Let
be defined on a domain containing
which is monotone increasing, then
( a ) We have .
( b ) For any real number , we have
.
( c ) We have .
( d ) If , then
.
( e ) If , then
.
( f ) If , then
.
( g ) Let be a bounded interval containing
(i.e.
), and let
be the function
Then is piecewise constant on
, and
.
( h ) Suppose that is a partition of
into two intervals
and
. Then the functions
and
are piecewise constant on
and
respectively, and we have
Proof:
We choose partitions of and
such that
is piecewise constant with respect to
and
is piecewise constant with respect to
. Then let
, we can see
and
are piecewise constant with respect to
. For any
, let
denote the constant value of
and
on
.
( a ) is piecewise constant with respect to
, with constant value
on
,
( b ) is piecewise constant with respect to
, with constant value
on
,
( c ) Use ( b ) we have , then use ( a ) we get
( d ) If , then
, since
is monotone increasing we have
, thus
( e ) We have , so use ( d ) we have
( f ) If , then
, so we have by Lemma 11.8.4
(g) The set is a partition of
, and
is piecewise constant on
, with additional constant value
, thus
( h ) We have and
partitions of
and
, and since
is piecewise constant with
, it’s easy to see
is piecewise constant with
on
,
is piecewise constant with
on
. As we have
and
, we define
Since is a partition of
, we have
, thus use ( a ) ,( g ) we have
Exercise 11.8.4. State and prove a version of Theorem 11.5.1 for the Riemann-Stieltjes integral.
Solution: Proposition: Let be a bounded interval, and let
be a function which is uniformly continuous on
. Let
be defined on a domain containing
which is monotone increasing, Then
is Riemann-Stieltjes integrable on
with respect to
.
Proof: From Proposition 9.9.15 we see that is bounded. Now we have to show that
.
If is a point or the empty set then the theorem is trivial, so let us assume that
is one of the four intervals
, or
for some real numbers
be arbitrary. By uniform continuity, there exists a
such that
whenever
. By the Archimedean principle, there exists an integer
such that
, Note that we can partition
into
intervals
, each of length
, we thus have
So we have
This shows cannot be positive.
Exercise 11.8.5. Let be the signum function
Let be a continuous function. Show that
is Riemann-Stieltjes integrable with respect to
, and that
Solution: We let be arbitrary. Then since
is continuous,
such that
Since is continuous on
,
is bounded, thus
, s.t.
We let be a partition of
, then the piecewise constant function
majorizes and we have
Similarly, the piecewise constant function
minorizes and we have
Thus we have
And the result follows.