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Garrido, Theorem 2.6 (recalled) — a finitely additive measure on a subring of a boolean algebra extends to the whole algebra

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Garrido.exists_extension_of_isBooleanSubring

by dbenbenn · Oct 3, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

amenabilitygroup-theorymeasure-theory

For every boolean algebra A\mathcal AA, every subring R\mathcal RR of it (IsBooleanSubring) and every finitely additive μ\muμ on R\mathcal RR with values in [0,∞][0, \infty][0,∞] (IsFinitelyAdditiveOn R μ), there is a finitely additive μˉ\bar\muμˉ​ on all of A\mathcal AA (IsFinitelyAdditiveOn Set.univ μbar) that agrees with μ\muμ on R\mathcal RR.

Garrido's Theorem 2.6 (p. 7) opens by recalling this: “Theorem 2.6 (Invariant Extension Theorem). Recall Carathéodory’s Extension Theorem: If R\mathcal RR is a subring of the boolean algebra A\mathcal AA and μ\muμ is a measure on R\mathcal RR, then μ\muμ can be extended to a measure μˉ\bar\muμˉ​ on A\mathcal AA. If GGG is an amenable group of automorphisms of A\mathcal AA and R\mathcal RR, μ\muμ are GGG-invariant, then μˉ\bar\muμˉ​ can be chosen to be GGG-invariant.” This statement is its first sentence, the finitely additive extension the notes call Carathéodory's Extension Theorem. For the algebra of all subsets of a set and a ring of sets it is the published FinitelyAdditive.exists_extension_of_isSetRing; a general boolean algebra reduces to that case through its Stone representation, which is not formalized here.

Preamble
import Mathlib
import Definitions.Def_Garrido_BooleanExtension
Formal statement
namespace Garrido

theorem exists_extension_of_isBooleanSubring {A : Type*} [BooleanAlgebra A] (R : Set A)
    (hR : IsBooleanSubring R) (μ : A → ENNReal) (hμ : IsFinitelyAdditiveOn R μ) :
    ∃ μbar : A → ENNReal, IsFinitelyAdditiveOn Set.univ μbar ∧ ∀ r ∈ R, μbar r = μ r := by
  sorry

end Garrido
Source
A. Garrido, "An introduction to amenable groups", lecture notes, Oxford Advanced Class in Algebra, Michaelmas 2013 (PDF, Feb 2015), p. 7, Theorem 2.6 (the recalled Carathéodory Extension Theorem); https://web.archive.org/web/20260805000803/https://www.math.uni-duesseldorf.de/~garrido/amenable.pdf

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