English

Generalizing Witt vector construction

Rings and Algebras 2015-03-26 v3

Abstract

The purpose of this this paper is to generalize the functors arising from the theory of Witt vectors duto to Cartier. Given a polynomial g(q)Z[q]g(q)\in \mathbb Z[q], we construct a functor Wg(q){\overline {W}}^{g(q)} from the category of Z[q]\mathbb Z[q]-algebras to that of commutative rings. When qq is specialized into an integer mm, it produces a functor from the category of commutative rings with unity to that of commutative rings. In a similar way, we also construct several functors related to Wg(q){\overline { W}}^{g(q)}. Functorial and structural properties such as induction, restriction, classification and unitalness will be investigated intensively.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1211.3508,
  title  = {Generalizing Witt vector construction},
  author = {Young-Tak Oh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.3508},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

43 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-21T22:38:44.122Z