Capacities and Choquet Averages of Ultrafilters

Abstract

We show that a normalized capacity $\nu :\mathcal{P}(\mathbf{N})\to \mathbf{R}$ is invariant with respect to an ideal $\mathcal{I}$ on $\mathbf{N}$ if and only if it can be represented as a Choquet average of $\{0,1\}$-valued finitely additive probability measures corresponding to the ultrafilters containing the dual filter of $\mathcal{I}$. This is obtained as a consequence of an abstract analogue in the context of Archimedean Riesz spaces.

15 pages, to appear in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc