Measures on effect algebras

We study measures defined on effect algebras. We characterize real-valued measures on effect algebras and find a class of effect algebras, that include the natural effect algebras of sets, on which σ-additive measures with values in a finite dimensional Banach space are always bounded. We also prove that in effect algebras the Nikodym and the Grothendieck properties together imply the Vitali-Hahn-Saks property, and find an example of an effect algebra verifying the Vitali-Hahn-Saks property but failing to have the Nikodym property. Finally, we define the concept of variation for vector measures on effect algebras proving that in effect algebras verifying the Riesz Decomposition Property, the variation of a finitely additive vector measure is a finitely additive positive measure.

The bounded vector measure associated to a conical measure and pettis differentiability

Let X be a locally convex space. Kluvánek associated to each X-valued countably additive vector measure a conical measure on X; this can also be done for finitely additive bounded vector measures. We prove that every conical measure u on X, whose associated zonoform Ku is contained in X, is associated to a bounded additive vector measure σ(u) defined on X, and satisfying σ(u)(H) ∈ H, for every finite intersection H of closed half-spaces. When X is a complete weak space, we prove that σ(u) is countably additive. This allows us to recover two results of Kluvánek: for any X, every conical measure u on it with Ku ⊆ X is associated to a countably additive X-valued vector measure; and every conical measure on a complete weak space is localizable. When X is a Banach space, we prove that σ(u) is countably additive if and only if u is the conical measure associated to a Pettis differentiable vector measure.

Remarks on the range of a vector measure

A long-standing problem is the characterization of subsets of the range of a vector measure. It is known that the range of a countably additive vector measure is relatively weakly compact and, in addition, possesses several interesting properties (see [2]). In [6] it is proved that if m: Σ → Χ is a countably additive vector measure, then the range of m has not only the Banach–Saks property, but even the alternate Banach-Saks property. A tantalizing conjecture, which we shall disprove in this article, is that the range of m has to have, for some p > 1, the p-Banach–Saks property. Another conjecture, which has been around for some time (see [2]) and is also disproved in this paper, is that weakly null sequences in the range of a vector measure admit weakly-2-summable sub-sequences. In fact, we shall show a weakly null sequence in the range of a countably additive vector measure having, for every p < ∞, no weakly-p-summable sub-sequences.