Explain the use of Dominated Convergence Theorem

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In the proposition below from Measure Theory and Probability by Athreya and Lahiri, DCT was used to justify the existence of $t$ in the first line of the proof.

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But I can't think how this was applied from the DCT as provided in page 7:

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Can somebody explain how this is so?

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$$\lim_{t\to\infty}|f(x)|\chi_{\{|f|>t\}}=0 ~~~~\text{a.e.}$$

(Because $f\in L^1$ if we had a set of positive measure that was infinite, the integral would be infinite as well)

And $|f(x)|\chi_{\{|f|>t\}}$ is dominated by an integrable function, namely $|f|$ (as $f\in L^1$), so we have:

$$\lim_{t\to\infty} \int_{|f|>t}|f|~d\mu=\lim_{t\to\infty} \int_{\Omega} |f(x)|\chi_{\{|f|>t\}} ~d\mu=\int_{\Omega}0~d\mu=0$$

Then just apply definition of convergence of numbers.