Diagonal Simplicial Tensor Modules and Algebraic $n$-Hypergroupoids
Abstract
Let be a commutative ring, let , and let with . We attach to a diagonal simplicial tensor module whose -simplices are functions on a cosimplicial index set . This extends Quillen's diagonal on double semi-simplicial groups: is obtained by restricting a -fold simplicial -module along the diagonal . Using a ``missing indices'' description of face kernels, we compute the horn kernels and show that if and only if , independently of . Consequently, is an algebraic -hypergroupoid in the sense of Duskin (1979) and Glenn (1982) if and only if , and horn fillers in dimension are non-unique if and only if ; in particular it is strict precisely when . A Horn Non-Degeneracy Lemma shows that, for , and yields a decomposition . An explicit shift-and-truncate chain homotopy, equivariant under and compatible with a natural filtration, contracts and forces the associated spectral sequence to collapse at . When is an infinite field , we study simplicial submodules generated by a single tensor via kernel sequences and a moduli map to a product of Grassmannians. The moduli map image is an irreducible and unirational constructible subset of a determinantal incidence variety.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.10281,
title = {Diagonal Simplicial Tensor Modules and Algebraic $n$-Hypergroupoids},
author = {Florian Lengyel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.10281},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
31 pages. Minor corrections, notational revision