Sequence of Lebesgue integrable functions on R that converges pointwise but for which term by term integration is not valid

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Can anyone give an example of a sequence of Lebesgue integrable functions on R that converges pointwise but for which term by term integration is not valid?

I know that the Lebesgue Monotone Convergence Theorem does not apply to such an example but I cannot think of an example to s how this.

Best Answer

Maybe you mean something like this?: let $f_n(x):=\chi_{[n,n+1]}(x)$ for $n\in\Bbb N$. Then clearly $f_n\in\mathcal L_1(\Bbb R)$ and $(f_n)\to 0$ point-wise, but

$$\lim_{n\to\infty}\int_{\Bbb R} f_n(x)\,\lambda(dx)=1\neq\int_{\Bbb R} \lim_{n\to\infty}f_n(x)\,\lambda(dx)=0$$

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