Formal Definition
Let f be a complex-valued function defined on a measure space, (X, μ) that also belongs to L∞(μ). Then the essential range of f is defined to be the set:
- S = { complex numbers z | μ({ x : abs(f(x) − z) < ε }) > 0 for all ε > 0}
Note that: Another description of the essential range of a function is as follows:
The essential range of a complex-valued function is the set of all complex numbers z such that the inverse image of each ε-neighbourhood of z under f has positive measure.
The above description of the essential range is equivalent to the formal definition of the essential range and will therefore be used throughout this article.
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