In mathematics - specifically, in functional analysis - a Bochner-measurable function taking values in a Banach space is a function that equals almost everywhere the limit of a sequence of measurable countably-valued functions, i.e.,
f(t)=\limn → inftyfn(t)foralmosteveryt,
where the functions
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(\{x\})
Bochner-measurable functions are sometimes called strongly measurable,
\mu
The relationship between measurability and weak measurability is given by the following result, known as Pettis' theorem or Pettis measurability theorem.
Function f is almost surely separably valued (or essentially separably valued) if there exists a subset N ⊆ X with μ(N) = 0 such that f(X \ N) ⊆ B is separable.
A function f : X → B defined on a measure space (X, Σ, μ) and taking values in a Banach space B is (strongly) measurable (with respect to Σ and the Borel algebra on B) if and only if it is both weakly measurable and almost surely separably valued.
In the case that B is separable, since any subset of a separable Banach space is itself separable, one can take N above to be empty, and it follows that the notions of weak and strong measurability agree when B is separable.