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Absolutely integrable function

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A function is said to be absolutely integrable if its absolute value is integrable, meaning that the integral of the absolute value over the whole domain is finite. Since

where

this implies that both and must be finite. If we are using Lebesgue integration this is exactly the requirement for f itself to be considered integrable (with the integral then equaling ), so that in fact "absolutely integrable" means the same thing as "Lebesgue integrable".