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Deriving the Giry algebras on standard Borel spaces using $\mathbb{R}_{\infty}$-generalized points

Category Theory 2025-10-06 v5

Abstract

The Giry monad on the category of measurable spaces restricts to the full subcategory of standard Borel spaces, Std\mathbf{Std}, which we show is amenable to analysis. Std\mathbf{Std} contains the space R\mathbb{R}_{\infty} which is the one-point compactification of the real numbers. By viewing probability measures PG(A)P \in \mathcal{G}(A) as functionals operating on measurable functions ARA \rightarrow \mathbb{R}_{\infty}, and taking the restriction of those functionals to operate on affine measurable functions we show that AHomRR(RA,R)A \cong Hom_{\mathbb{R}_{\infty}^{\mathbb{R}_{\infty}}}(\mathbb{R}_{\infty}^A|,\mathbb{R}_{\infty}) for all object AA lying in the subcategory StdCvx\mathbf{Std}_{Cvx} of Std\mathbf{Std}. The objects of StdCvx\mathbf{Std}_{Cvx} are standard spaces with a convex space structure which satisfies the generic ``fullness property''. The morphisms of the category StdCvx\mathbf{Std}_{Cvx} are affine measurable functions. The isomorphism is equivalent to the statement that the full subcategory of StdCvx\mathbf{Std}_{Cvx} consisting of the single object R\mathbb{R}_{\infty} is codense in StdCvx\mathbf{Std}_{Cvx} which allows us to easily construct the G\mathcal{G}-algebras of objects in StdCvx\mathbf{Std}_{Cvx}. This permits an adjoint factorization of the Giry monad as the composite of StdG^StdCvx\mathbf{Std} \xrightarrow{\hat{\mathcal{G}}} \mathbf{Std}_{Cvx}, which is the Giry monad functor viewed as a functor into StdCvx\mathbf{Std}_{Cvx}, and the partial forgetful functor StdCvxUCvxStd\mathbf{Std}_{Cvx} \xrightarrow{\mathcal{U}_{Cvx}} \mathbf{Std} which forgets the convex space structure. We prove that the category StdCvx\mathbf{Std}_{Cvx} is the category of algebras of the G\mathcal{G}-monad.

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@article{arxiv.2409.14861,
  title  = {Deriving the Giry algebras on standard Borel spaces using $\mathbb{R}_{\infty}$-generalized points},
  author = {Kirk Sturtz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.14861},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

12 pages. This updated version shows $\mathbf{Std}_{Cvx}=\mathbf{Alg}_{\mathcal{G}}$

R2 v1 2026-06-28T18:53:29.653Z