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''finitely-additive function (on sets, on domains)''
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A real-valued function <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010650/a0106501.png" /> defined on a system of sets <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010650/a0106502.png" /> and such that
 
 
 
<table class="eq" style="width:100%;"> <tr><td valign="top" style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010650/a0106503.png" /></td> <td valign="top" style="width:5%;text-align:right;">(*)</td></tr></table>
 
 
 
for any finite number of pairwise-disjoint sets <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010650/a0106504.png" /> of <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010650/a0106505.png" /> whose union also belongs to <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010650/a0106506.png" />. Countably-additive set functions are an important kind of additive functions (cf. [[Countably-additive set function|Countably-additive set function]]).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Suppose that <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010650/a0106507.png" /> is a <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010650/a0106508.png" />-algebra on a set <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010650/a0106509.png" />. Then a non-negative function <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010650/a01065010.png" /> (taking, possibly, the value <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010650/a01065011.png" />) on <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010650/a01065012.png" /> is an additive (finitely-additive, countably-additive) measure if it satisfies (*) for an arbitrary (respectively, finite, countable) number of disjoint sets <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010650/a01065013.png" /> in <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010650/a01065014.png" />.
 
 
 
Usually, a measure (sic) is a countably-additive measure.
 
 
 
====References====
 
<table><TR><TD valign="top">[a1]</TD> <TD valign="top">  H.L. Royden,  "Real analysis" , Macmillan  (1968)</TD></TR></table>
 

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Additive function. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Additive_function&oldid=19226
This article was adapted from an original article by A.P. Terekhin (originator), which appeared in Encyclopedia of Mathematics - ISBN 1402006098. See original article