In mathematics, absolute continuity is a smoothness property which is stricter than continuity and uniform continuity.
Definition. A finite function on a finite interval
is said to be absolute continuous if and only if for given
, there exists
such that
for any collection (finite or not) of non-overlapping subintervals of
with
.
Statement. Show that is absolutely continuous on
if and only if given
, there exists
such that
for any finite collection of non-overlapping subintervals of
with
.
Proof. If is absolutely continuous on
, then the result is easily obtained by using the definition and the fact that
for every
.
Now we prove that
for given , there exists
such that
for any finite collection
of non-overlapping subintervals of
with
.
Indeed, we split the collection into two types:
- type
are all
such that
and
- type
are all
such that
.
For given , there exists
such that
for any finite collection
with
. Then for
we also have
.
Similarly,
.
From the following inequality with
we deduce that
with the fact that
Note that the right hand side of the above inequality is bounded from above by
Thus, we have proved that for given , there exists
such that
for any finite collection of non-overlapping subintervals of
with
. Letting
we can claim that $f$ is absolutely continuous.
the limit
does not exist. In this topic, we
.
is a measurable set of measure
. Moreover, for any
,
there are sequences
and
of
such that
either increasing to
or decreasing to
. If
then 
and 
be a measurable space, and let
be two measures. Then
is said to be equivalent to
if
, i.e. the two measures have precisely the same null sets. Equivalence is often denoted
or
.
.
is finite a.e. with respect to the Lebesgue measure on
where



by
.
comes from the following condition 





