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2017-10-13
Kozen, Dexter.  2016.  Kolmogorov Extension, Martingale Convergence, and Compositionality of Processes. Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. :692–699.

We show that the Kolmogorov extension theorem and the Doob martingale convergence theorem are two aspects of a common generalization, namely a colimit-like construction in a category of Radon spaces and reversible Markov kernels. The construction provides a compositional denotational semantics for lossless iteration in probabilistic programming languages, even in the absence of a natural partial order.