Proposition 14.6.3. Let $X$ be a LCH space and $\mu: \cb_{X} \to [0, \infty]$ be a Radon measure, then

  1. $\mu$ is inner regular on all its $\sigma$-finite sets.

  2. If $X$ is $\sigma$-compact or $\mu$ is $\sigma$-finite, then $\mu$ is regular.

Proof. (1): Let $E \in \cb_{X}$ with $\mu(E) < \infty$ and $\eps > 0$, then there exists

  • $U \in \cn^{o}(E)$ with $\mu(U \setminus E) < \eps/2$.

  • $K \subset U$ compact with $\mu(K) > \mu(U) - \eps/2$.

  • $V \in \cn^{o}(U \setminus E)$ with $\mu(V) < \eps/2$.

In which case, $K \setminus V \subset E$ is compact with

\[\mu(K \setminus V) \ge \mu(K) - \mu(V) \ge \mu(U) - \eps/2 - \eps/2 \ge \mu(E) - \eps\]

so $\mu$ is inner regular on $E$.

Now suppose that $E$ is $\sigma$-finite, then there exists $\seq{E_n}\subset \cb_{X}$ with $\mu(E_{n}) < \infty$ for each $n \in \natp$ and $E = \bigsqcup_{n \in \natp}E_{n} = E$. Let $N \in \natp$ and $\seqf{K_n}\subset 2^{X}$ compact with $K_{n} \subset E_{n}$ for each $n \in \natp$, then $\bigcup_{n = 1}^{N} K_{n} \subset E$ is compact. Hence

\[\sup_{\substack{K \subset E \\ \text{compact}}}\mu(K) \ge \sum_{n = 1}^{N}\sup_{\substack{K_n \subset E_n \\ \text{compact}}}\mu(K_{n}) = \sum_{n = 1}^{N} \mu(E_{n})\]

As the above holds for all $N \in \natp$,

\[\sup_{\substack{K \subset E \\ \text{compact}}}\mu(K) \ge \sum_{n \in \natp}\mu(E_{n}) = \mu(E)\]
$\square$