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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 Rn\mathbb{R}^n, via Grothendieck topologies constructed from valuations, that circumvent the classical approach via σ\sigma-algebras. As an application we obtain a functorial construction of the induced measure μ\mu_* on the locale of sublocales Sl(X)\mathfrak{Sl}(X) of a Hausdorff space XX equipped with a Radon measure μ\mu, which in particular shows that μ\mu_* 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.

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@article{arxiv.2510.08826,
  title  = {Measure theory via Locales},
  author = {Georg Lehner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08826},
  year   = {2025}
}
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