Lectures on Choquet's Theorem

A well written, readable and easily accessible introduction to "Choquet theory", which treats the representation of elements of a compact convex set as integral averages over extreme points of the set. The interest in this material arises both from its appealing geometrical nature as well...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Phelps, Robert R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2001, 2001
Edition:2nd ed. 2001
Series:Lecture Notes in Mathematics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The Krein-Milman theorem as an integral representation theorem
  • Application of the Krein-Milman theorem to completely monotonic functions
  • Choquet’s theorem: The metrizable case.
  • The Choquet-Bishop-de Leeuw existence theorem
  • Applications to Rainwater’s and Haydon’s theorems
  • A new setting: The Choquet boundary
  • Applications of the Choquet boundary to resolvents
  • The Choquet boundary for uniform algebras
  • The Choquet boundary and approximation theory
  • Uniqueness of representing measures.
  • Properties of the resultant map
  • Application to invariant and ergodic measures
  • A method for extending the representation theorems: Caps
  • A different method for extending the representation theorems
  • Orderings and dilations of measures
  • Additional Topics