Compact measures have Loeb preimages

Abstract

A compact measure is a (possibly nontopological) measure that is inner-regular with respect to a compact family of measurable sets. The main result of this paper is that every compact probability measure is the image, under a measure-preserving transformation, of a Loeb probability space. This generalizes a well-known result about Radon topological probability measures. It is also proved that a compact probability space can be topologized in such a way that the measure is essentially Radon.