Lebesgue integral over a subset of the measure space
Let be a measure space and .
Let be a simple function. Then is defined as , where denotes the characteristic function
of .
Let be a measurable function and
. Then is defined as .
By the properties of the Lebesgue integral of nonnegative measurable functions (property 3), we have that .
Let be a measurable function such that not both of and are infinite. (Note that and are defined in the entry Lebesgue integral.) Then is defined as .
By the properties of the Lebesgue integral of Lebesgue integrable functions (property 3), we have that .