I recently had the idea that maybe measure spaces could be viewed as sheaves, since they attach things, specifically real numbers, to sets...
But at least as far as I can tell, it doesn't quite work - if is a measure space and is also given the topology , then we do get a presheaf , where is the poset of non-negative real numbers given the structure of a category, and , and = the unique map "" from to , but this is not a sheaf because for an open cover {} of an open set , is in general not equal to sup (and sup is the product in ).
First off, is the above reasoning correct? I'm still quite a beginner in category theory, but I've seen on Wikipedia something about a sheafification functor - does applying that yield anything meaningful/interesting? Does anyone have good references for measure theory from a category theory perspective, or neat examples of how this perspective is helpful?
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