English

Incidence bicomodules, M\"obius inversion, and a Rota formula for infinity adjunctions

Algebraic Topology 2020-03-11 v2 Combinatorics Category Theory

Abstract

In the same way decomposition spaces, also known as unital 2-Segal spaces, have incidence (co)algebras, and certain relative decomposition spaces have incidence (co)modules, we identify the structures that have incidence bi(co)modules: they are certain augmented double Segal spaces subject to some exactness conditions. We establish a M\"obius inversion principle for (co)modules, and a Rota formula for certain more involved structures called M\"obius bicomodule configurations. The most important instance of the latter notion arises as mapping cylinders of infinity adjunctions, or more generally of adjunctions between M\"obius decomposition spaces, in the spirit of Rota's original formula.

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@article{arxiv.1801.07504,
  title  = {Incidence bicomodules, M\"obius inversion, and a Rota formula for infinity adjunctions},
  author = {Louis Carlier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.07504},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

38 pages. v2: thorough revision and expository improvements

R2 v1 2026-06-22T23:52:57.985Z