Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem

In mathematics, the Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem, introduced by Vitali (1907), Hahn (1922), and Saks (1933), proves that under some conditions a sequence of measures converging point-wise does so uniformly and the limit is also a measure.

is a measure space with

of complex measures.

is absolutely continuous with respect to

the finite limits exist

Then the absolute continuity of the

lim

lim

is countably additive on

Given a measure space

a distance can be constructed on

the set of measurable sets

This is done by defining This gives rise to a metric space

by identifying two sets

with the metric defined above is a complete metric space.

χ

χ

This means that the metric space

can be identified with a subset of the Banach space

Then we can choose a sub-sequence

lim inf

the limit inferior of the sequence) and hence

defines a function

This function is well defined, this is it is independent on the representative

due to the absolute continuity of

By Baire category theorem at least one

must contain a non-empty open set of

Therefore, by the absolute continuity of

By the additivity of the limit it follows that

is actually countably additive.