A Real-Valued Measure on non-Archimedean Field Extensions of $$\mathbb{R}$$

Abstract

We introduce a real-valued measure ${m_L}$ on non-Archimedean ordered fields $(\mathbb{F},<)$ that extend the field of real numbers $(\mathbb{R},<)$. The definition of ${m_L}$ is inspired by the Loeb measures of hyperreal fields in the framework of Robinson's analysis with infinitesimals. The real-valued measure ${m_L}$ turns out to be general enough to obtain a canonical measurable representative in $\mathbb{F}$ for every Lebesgue measurable subset of $\mathbb{R}$, moreover, the measure of the two sets is equal. In addition, $m_L$ it is more expressive than a class of non-Archimedean uniform measures. We focus on the properties of the real-valued measure in the case where $\mathbb{F}=\mathcal{R}$, the Levi-Civita field. In particular, we compare ${m_L}$ with the uniform non-Archimedean measure over $\mathcal{R}$ developed by Shamseddine and Berz, and we prove that the first is infinitesimally close to the second, whenever the latter is defined. We also define a real-valued integral for functions on the Levi-Civita field, and we prove that every real continuous function has an integrable representative in $\mathcal{R}$. Recall that this result is false for the current non-Archimedean integration over $\mathcal{R}$. The paper concludes with a discussion on the representation of the Dirac distribution by pointwise functions on non-Archimedean domains.