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 (X,Sigma,mu)(X,Sigma,mu) is a measure space and XX is also given the topology SigmaSigma, then we do get a presheaf M:O(X)rightarrowmathbbRgeq0M:O(X)rightarrowmathbbRgeq0, where mathbbRgeq0mathbbRgeq0 is the poset of non-negative real numbers given the structure of a category, and M(U)=mu(U)M(U)=mu(U), and M(UsubseteqV)M(UsubseteqV) = the unique map "geqgeq" from mu(V)mu(V) to mu(U)mu(U), but this is not a sheaf because for an open cover {UiUi} of an open set UU, mu(U)mu(U) is in general not equal to sup mu(Ui)mu(Ui) (and sup is the product in mathbbRmathbbR).
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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