Measure theory via Locales
General Topology
2025-10-23 v2 Category Theory
Logic
Abstract
We present an approach to measure theory using the theory of locales. This includes concrete constructions of measure algebras associated to Radon measures, such as the Lebesgue measure on , via Grothendieck topologies constructed from valuations, that circumvent the classical approach via -algebras. As an application we obtain a functorial construction of the induced measure on the locale of sublocales of a Hausdorff space equipped with a Radon measure , which in particular shows that is invariant under measure-preserving homeomorphisms. We furthermore give a construction of the measurable locale associated to a smooth manifold, functorial in submersions, as well as comparison results to classical measure theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2510.08826,
title = {Measure theory via Locales},
author = {Georg Lehner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08826},
year = {2025}
}