Integrals of partial derivative

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Let T be an absolutely continuous random variable and let U be an arbitrary random variable.

Then why does this equality hold: $P(t<T\leq t+s, T\leq U)=\int_t^{t+s} - \frac{\partial }{\partial v}P(T\geq v, U\geq u)|_{v=u}du$

It is not even clear to me why $P(T\geq v, U\geq u)$ would be differentiable almost everywhere with regard to $v$. I am not used to think about absolute continuity. I know this is probably very trivial so if someone would just point me towards the right theorems that would be great.

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If you extract the desired term you will get the following result. $$ P(T \geq v, U \geq u) = 1 − P((T \geq v, U \geq u)^C) = 1-((T \geq v)^C \cup (U \geq u)^C) = 1 - P((T < v) \cup (U<u)) = 1 -[P(T < v) + P(U < u) - P(T < v, U < u)] = 1 - F_T(v) + P_U(u)-F_{T,U}(v, u) $$ You stated that T is absolutely continous, and U is arbitrary continous. Hence the result from above should also be continous.