
Measures on hyperspaces
Author(s) -
Włodzimierz J. Charatonik,
Matt Insall
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
proceedings of the american mathematical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.968
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1088-6826
pISSN - 0002-9939
DOI - 10.1090/proc/13215
Subject(s) - algorithm , artificial intelligence , computer science
From a measure space, ( X , μ X ) (X, \mu ^{\mathbb {X}}) we define a measure μ P ( X ) \mu ^{\mathbb {P}(\mathbb {X})} on the power set of X X . If ( X , τ ) (X, \tau ) is a compactum, whose topology τ \tau is compatible with the measure μ X \mu ^{\mathbb {X}} on X X , then the measure μ P ( X ) \mu ^{\mathbb {P}(\mathbb {X})} restricts to a natural measure on the hyperspace of closed sets of that given compactum. Surprisingly, under very mild conditions, μ P ( X ) \mu ^{\mathbb {P}(\mathbb {X})} is always supported on the hyperspace of finite subsets.