Tarski Measure

We present an approach to the study of stationary measures placing Tarski’s foundational work in this area within a modern category theoretic context. Guiding this work is the notion that measurable spaces equipped with symmetries carry an intrinsic notion of `size’. We demonstrate that within such measurable spaces, the collection of these sizes embeds into a partially ordered commutative inverse monoid. Using this we prove, in great generality, the basic theorems of measure theory and give an algebraic characterization of the space of classical real valued stationary measures.