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Well-behaved Markov category with arbitrary products

Determine a well-behaved Markov category for measure-theoretic probability that admits products of arbitrary families of objects (i.e., uncountable products in the sense of Kolmogorov products).

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Background

The standard Borel Markov category supports many probabilistic constructions but fails to be closed under uncountable products. The authors aim for a setting where measure-theoretic probability admits arbitrary products while retaining key categorical properties such as the existence of conditionals.

References

It remains an open problem to find a well-behaved Markov category for measure-theoretic probability in which products of arbitrary families of objects exist.

Categories of abstract and noncommutative measurable spaces (2504.13708 - Fritz et al., 18 Apr 2025) in Introduction, Motivation (Subsubsection)