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This paper has two goals: to present some new results that are necessary for further study and applications of quasi-linear functionals, and, by combining known and new results, to serve as a convenient single source for anyone interested in quasi-linear functionals on locally compact non-compact spaces or on compact spaces. We study signed and positive quasi-linear functionals paying close attention to singly generated subalgebras. The paper gives representation theorems for quasi-linear functionals on C c (X) and for bounded quasi-linear functionals on C 0 (X) on a locally compact space, and for quasilinear functionals on C(X) on a compact space. There is an order-preserving bijection between quasi-linear functionals and compact-finite topological measures, which is also "isometric" when topological measures are finite. Finally, we further study properties of quasi-linear functionals and give an explicit example of a quasi-linear functional.

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We study non-linear functionals, including quasi-linear functionals, p-conic quasi-linear functionals, d-functionals, r-functionals, and their relationships to deficient topological measures and topological measures on locally compact spaces. We prove representation theorems and show, in particular, that there is an order-preserving, conic-linear bijection between the class of finite deficient topological measures and the class of bounded p-conic quasi-linear functionals. Our results imply known representation theorems for finite topological measures and deficient topological measures. When the space is compact we obtain four equivalent definitions of a quasi-linear functional and four equivalent definitions of functionals corresponding to deficient topological measures.

Topological measures and quasi‐linear functionals generalize measures and linear functionals. We define and study deficient topological measures on locally compact spaces. A deficient topological measure on a locally compact space is a set function on open and closed sets which is finitely additive on compact sets, inner regular on open sets, and outer regular on closed sets. Deficient topological measures generalize measures and topological measures. First we investigate positive, negative, and total variation of a signed set function that is only assumed to be finitely additive on compact sets. These positive, negative, and total variations turn out to be deficient topological measures. Then we examine finite additivity, superadditivity, smoothness, and other properties of deficient topological measures. We obtain methods for generating new deficient topological measures. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a deficient topological measure to be a topological measure and to be a measure. The results presented are necessary for further study of topological measures, deficient topological measures, and corresponding non‐linear functionals on locally compact spaces.