English

Combinatorial categorical equivalences of Dold-Kan type

Category Theory 2019-04-01 v5

Abstract

We prove a class of equivalences of additive functor categories that are relevant to enumerative combinatorics, representation theory, and homotopy theory. Let X\mathscr{X} denote an additive category with finite direct sums and split idempotents. The class includes (a) the Dold-Puppe-Kan theorem that simplicial objects in X\mathscr{X} are equivalent to chain complexes in X\mathscr{X}; (b) the observation of Church, Ellenberg and Farb that X\mathscr{X}-valued species are equivalent to X\mathscr{X}-valued functors from the category of finite sets and injective partial functions; (c) a result T. Pirashvili calls of "Dold-Kan type"; and so on. When X\mathscr{X} is semi-abelian, we prove the adjunction that was an equivalence is now at least monadic, in the spirit of a theorem of D. Bourn.

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@article{arxiv.1402.7151,
  title  = {Combinatorial categorical equivalences of Dold-Kan type},
  author = {Stephen Lack and Ross Street},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.7151},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

We found a gap in the proof of Proposition 6.5 in version 4, which we have fixed with a new Assumption 2.6 in version 5. This holds in all our examples as shown in Proposition 2.9 of version 5. This new assumption is used only in the proof of what is now Theorem 6.5. Some other tidying up and minor corrections have also been made

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