Finitely additive integration and local integration with respect to upper integrals

Abstract

We study the integration theory for general integral metrics when restricted to upper integrals q, finding improvements in the relation between the classes of the q-integrable and the ql-integrable functions. We give new results and notions which lead to the desirable characterizations of q-integrable functions as ql-integrable f with q(|f|) < ∞, and of ql-integrable functions via the integrability of their upper truncations, under natural conditions which are fulfilled in most finitely additive integration theories.