Antipodes of monoidal decomposition spaces
Abstract
We introduce a notion of antipode for monoidal (complete) decomposition spaces, inducing a notion of weak antipode for their incidence bialgebras. In the connected case, this recovers the usual notion of antipode in Hopf algebras. In the non-connected case it expresses an inversion principle of more limited scope, but still sufficient to compute the M\"obius function as , just as in Hopf algebras. At the level of decomposition spaces, the weak antipode takes the form of a formal difference of linear endofunctors , and it is a refinement of the general M\"obius inversion construction of G\'{a}lvez-Kock-Tonks, but exploiting the monoidal structure.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1807.11858,
title = {Antipodes of monoidal decomposition spaces},
author = {Louis Carlier and Joachim Kock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.11858},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
14 pages. Dedicated to the memory of Thomas Poguntke. v2: minor expository adjustments; final version to appear in Commun. Contemp. Math