Unbounded fork function is Lebesgue integrable

lebesgue-integrallebesgue-measuremeasure-theory

I am trying to understand the following homework.

Let $s>0$ and $u: \Bbb{R}\rightarrow \Bbb{R}$ be:
$$
u(x)=
\begin{cases}
1/x^s, & 0< x\leq 1 \\ 0,& \text{otherwise.}
\end{cases}
$$

I need to show that

  1. $u\in \mathcal{M}_\mathbb{R}^+(\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}))$ for all $s>0$

  2. and determine for which $s>0$ that $u\in \mathcal{L}^1(\lambda)$

For (1) My idea is that it is a continuous function in the interval and therefore it is Borel measurable and furthermore always positive.

For (2) I think that $u \in \mathcal{L}^1(\lambda)$ when $s\geq 2$ because it is then a convergent series. But my problem is that $u\rightarrow\infty$ when $x\rightarrow 0$. I know there exists unbounded function that are Lebesgue integrable but I don't know how to determine or show it for this function.

Any hints would be appreciated

Best Answer

Your idea about the measurability is correct.

Now i pressume that you mean with $s>0$ that $u(x)=\frac{1}{x^s}$ when $x \in (0,1]$

For $0<s<1$ the function is integrable and you can also compute its integral.

For $s \geq 1$ we have that $$\int_0^1 u(x)dx \geq \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\int_{\frac{1}{2n+2}}^{\frac{1}{2n+1}}\frac{1}{x^s}dx$$ $$ \geq \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} (2n+1)^s\frac{1}{(2n+1)(2n+2)}$$ $$= \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{(2n+1)^{s-1}}{2n+2}$$ $$\geq \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{(2n)^{s-1}}{4n}=+\infty$$ since $s-1 \geq 0$

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