A Categorical Framework for the Direct Integration of Banach Spaces

Abstract

We construct a categorical framework in which we can view the direct integral as a functor taking as input objects in a certain category of Abstract Banach bundles and outputting a Banach space. We do this by constructing a quasi-abelian category of abstract Banach bundles, and we prove certain foundational and theoretical results about this category and its objects. As a consequence, we are able to define a notion of direct integral of sheaves.