Infinite-dimensional Lebesgue measure
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Infinite-dimensional Lebesgue measure

In mathematics, an infinite-dimensional Lebesgue measure is a measure defined on infinite-dimensional normed vector spaces, such as Banach spaces, which resembles the Lebesgue measure used in finite-dimensional spaces.

However, the traditional Lebesgue measure cannot be straightforwardly extended to all infinite-dimensional spaces due to a key limitation: any translation-invariant Borel measure on an infinite-dimensional separable Banach space must be either infinite for all sets or zero for all sets. Despite this, certain forms of infinite-dimensional Lebesgue-like measures can exist in specific contexts. These include non-separable spaces like the Hilbert cube, or scenarios where some typical properties of finite-dimensional Lebesgue measures are modified or omitted.

The Lebesgue measure on the Euclidean space is locally finite, strictly positive, and translation-invariant. That is:

Motivated by their geometrical significance, constructing measures satisfying the above set properties for infinite-dimensional spaces such as the spaces or path spaces is still an open and active area of research.

Let be an infinite-dimensional, separable Banach space. Then, the only locally finite and translation invariant Borel measure on is a trivial measure. Equivalently, there is no locally finite, strictly positive, and translation invariant measure on .

More generally: on a non locally compact Polish group , there cannot exist a σ-finite and left-invariant Borel measure.

This theorem implies that on an infinite dimensional separable Banach space (which cannot be locally compact) a measure that perfectly matches the properties of a finite dimensional Lebesgue measure does not exist.

Let be an infinite-dimensional, separable Banach space equipped with a locally finite translation-invariant measure . To prove that is the trivial measure, it is sufficient and necessary to show that

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