Finite projections of abstract measures #
An abstract measure can be pushed to a finite discrete quotient by recording its values on the fibres. This file constructs that linear projection, proves its functoriality under refinement, identifies measures on a finite discrete space with finitely supported coefficient functions, and proves that binary projections already determine a measure on a profinite space.
The construction follows the finite-coefficient description in Rodrigues Jacinto and Williams, An introduction to p-adic L-functions, Sections 3.2--3.3.
The finite projection of a measure records its values on all fibres of q.
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Integration of a function factoring through a finite quotient is the corresponding finite sum against the projected coefficients.
The finite projection of a Dirac measure is the point mass at the image of its support.
A fibre of q that is empty carries no mass.
The finite projection of a pushforward is the finite projection along the composite.
Finite projection is functorial when one finite quotient refines another.
The sum of all finite coefficients is the total mass of the measure.
A finitely supported coefficient function on a finite discrete space defines the corresponding finite linear combination of Dirac measures.
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Evaluating the measure associated to finite coefficients pairs the coefficients with the values of the test function.
Finite projection along the identity recovers the coefficients used to build a measure.
Reconstructing a measure on a finite discrete space from its identity projection returns the original measure.
Measures on a finite discrete space are equivalent to their coefficient functions.
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A measure on a profinite space is determined by its projections to binary discrete quotients.
Finite projection is weakly continuous when its coefficients carry the product topology.