Berg--Christensen--Ressel representing measures as time kernels #
Let V be a finite-dimensional real inner-product space. A measure μ on V together with a
kernel κ from V to ℝ≥0 assembles into a measure TauCeti.swapCompProd μ κ on ℝ≥0 × V,
and conversely every finite measure on ℝ≥0 × V admits such a disintegration over its spatial
marginal, the Markov kernel being unique only up to equality almost everywhere for that marginal.
That assembly is general measure theory and lives in
TauCeti.Probability.Kernel.Composition.Swap; this file reads the Berg--Christensen--Ressel
representation through it.
The point is that the spatial slice of swapCompProd μ κ at time t is computed by a
fibrewise Laplace transform: it is μ weighted by the density
q ↦ ∫⁻ p, exp (-t p) ∂(κ q) (TauCeti.spatialSlice_swapCompProd). Since a finite
measure on ℝ≥0 × V represents a function F exactly when its spatial slices are the Bochner
measures of the time slices of F
(TauCeti.representsLaplaceFourier_iff_forall_spatialSlice_eq), and since those Bochner
measures decrease in time and are therefore all absolutely continuous with respect to the one at
time 0 (TauCeti.bochnerMeasure_timeSlice_absolutelyContinuous), the existence half of the
representation theorem becomes a fibrewise Bernstein problem: find a Markov kernel whose
fibrewise Laplace transforms are the Radon--Nikodym densities
d(bochnerMeasure (F (t, ·))) / d(bochnerMeasure (F (0, ·)))
(TauCeti.representsLaplaceFourier_swapCompProd_of_ae_rnDeriv). The reduction is exact:
TauCeti.exists_representsLaplaceFourier_iff_exists_timeKernel states it as an equivalence, so
nothing is lost in passing from the measure to the kernel.
The time-regularity input that a fibrewise Bernstein argument consumes — antitonicity, the
resulting absolute continuity, continuity and alternating finite differences of the slab
masses — is in TauCeti.Analysis.PositiveDefinite.SemigroupGroup.Time.Slice.Measure.
Main declarations #
TauCeti.spatialSlice_swapCompProd: the spatial slices of an assembled measure are the fibrewise Laplace transforms of its kernel,spatialSlice (swapCompProd μ κ) t = μ.withDensity (Kernel.laplaceTransform κ t). The measure-level transformTauCeti.laplaceTransformENNand its identification with the usual real-valued Laplace transform are in the infrastructure underTauCeti.Analysis.CompletelyMonotone.Laplace.TauCeti.representsLaplaceFourier_swapCompProd: a kernel whose fibrewise Laplace transforms are the densities of the spatial Bochner measures produces a Berg--Christensen--Ressel representing measure.TauCeti.representsLaplaceFourier_swapCompProd_of_ae_rnDeriv: the same criterion phrased using Radon--Nikodym derivatives.TauCeti.exists_representsLaplaceFourier_iff_exists_timeKernel: the reduction, as an equivalence between the existence of a representing measure and the existence of such a Markov kernel.
References #
C. Berg, J. P. R. Christensen, P. Ressel, Harmonic Analysis on Semigroups (GTM 100, 1984), Theorem 4.1.13.
Roadmap:
TauCetiRoadmap/OneParameterSemigroups/README.md, Part C, Milestone 2 ("BCR semigroup--Bochner"), the existence half.
The spatial slices of a measure assembled from a spatial measure and a time kernel #
The spatial slices of an assembled measure are its fibrewise Laplace transforms.
Weighting by exp (-t p) and integrating out the time coordinate leaves the spatial measure
weighted by the fibrewise Laplace transform of the kernel.
The reduction of the representation problem to a kernel problem #
A time kernel with the prescribed fibrewise Laplace transforms represents F. If the
fibrewise Laplace transform of κ at every time t is a density of the spatial Bochner measure
at t against the one at time 0, then assembling κ over that time-0 measure produces a
Berg--Christensen--Ressel representing measure for F. Only the time slices of F are
constrained: positive definiteness and continuity are what make the spatial Bochner measures
represent them.
The same criterion, phrased with Radon--Nikodym derivatives. A bounded continuous
positive-definite F is represented as soon as some s-finite kernel has, at every time, a
fibrewise Laplace transform equal almost everywhere to the Radon--Nikodym derivative of the
spatial Bochner measure at that time against the one at time 0. This is the exact form in
which a fibrewise Bernstein argument closes the existence half.
The existence half of the Berg--Christensen--Ressel representation is a kernel problem.
A function on ℝ≥0 × V whose time slices are continuous and positive-definite has a
representing finite measure if and only if there is a Markov kernel from V to ℝ≥0 whose
fibrewise Laplace transform at each time t is a density of the spatial Bochner measure at time
t against the one at time 0.
The forward direction disintegrates a representing measure over its spatial marginal, which is
the time-0 Bochner measure; the backward direction assembles the kernel into a measure and
checks its spatial slices.