Suppose I have a locally compact group $G$ and a quotient map $f:G\to G/N$. Is it true that for every Borel-measurable function $f : G → [0, +∞]$, $$\int_{G} f(g) \, \mathrm{d} \mu_G (g) = \int_{G/N} \int_{N} f(gn) \, \mathrm{d} \mu_{N} (n) \mathrm{d} \mu_{G/N} (gN),$$ where $\mathrm{d} \mu_{G}$, $\mathrm{d} \mu_{N}$ and $\mathrm{d} \mu_{G/N}$ are the Haar measures on $G$, $N$ and $G/N$ respectively?

In particular, is it true that if a subset $A\subseteq G$ is such that its intersection with $\mathrm{d}\mu_{G/N}$-almost every coset $gN$ is of full measure in $gN$ (w.r.t. to the measure on $gN$ obtained by shifting the measure of $N$, which is independent of the choice of $g$), then $A$ is of full measure in $G$? (This is implied from the equation above by taking $f$ to be the characteristic function of $A$).

I wanted to use the disintegration theorem in Wikipedia, but I'm not sure if it applies here. I'm not sure I understand the definition of a Radon space and I don't know which locally compact groups satisfy it.

I know of a more specific disintegration result, which appears in many/most introductions to Haar measures (e.g. Raghunthan's book), but it is only stated for continuous $f$ with compact support. I suppose it's not hard to get rid of the continuous part by using some Luzin argument (although I am not sure how to do it myself), but the compact support bothers me.

In any case, if this is not true for general locally compact groups, for which groups it is true? I have a reference for second-countable compact groups (Halmos's book Measure Theory; his definitions are a bit out-dated, but coincide with the modern ones for second-countable compact groups).

I don't mind assuming separability. Compactness is not awful either, but I prefer not to assume metrisability.

Thanks.


The identity

$$\int_{G} f(g) \, \mathrm{d} \mu_G (g) = \int_{G/N} \int_{N} f(gn) \, \mathrm{d} \mu_{N} (n) \mathrm{d} \mu_{G/N} (gN),$$

does not hold under the conditions you mention. You need some extra conditions. For example, only assuming that $f : G \to [0,\infty]$ is Borel measurable does not imply that $f$ is $\mu_G$-integrable, i.e., it might be that $\int_{G} f(g) \, \mathrm{d} \mu_G (g) = \infty$. Also, the quotient $G / N$ should be locally compact in order to define a Haar measure on it. This leads to the following result:

Let $G$ be a locally compact group and let $N \subset G$ be a closed subgroup. Suppose two of the Haar measures on $G, N$ and $G / N$ be given. Then there exists a unique third measure such that $$\int_{G} f(g) \, \mathrm{d} \mu_G (g) = \int_{G/N} \int_{N} f(gn) \, \mathrm{d} \mu_{N} (n) \mathrm{d} \mu_{G/N} (gN),$$ for all $f \in L^1 (G)$.

This result is well-known, and is often called Weil's formula or the quotient integral formula. It can be looked up in any book on abstract harmonic analysis.

There are also some generalisations of this result and related results. In case you want to know more about this, I strongly recommend you to look into Reiter's Classical Harmonic Analysis and Locally Compact Groups. In chapter 8 there is an extensive discussion on quasi-invariant quotient measures.