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Mackey 2-functors and Mackey 2-motives

Representation Theory 2020-09-16 v3 Algebraic Topology Category Theory K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

We study collections of additive categories M(G)\mathcal{M}(G), indexed by finite groups GG and related by induction and restriction in a way that categorifies usual Mackey functors. We call them `Mackey 2-functors'. We provide a large collection of examples in particular thanks to additive derivators. We prove the first properties of Mackey 2-functors, including separable monadicity of restriction to subgroups. We then isolate the initial such structure, leading to what we call `Mackey 2-motives'. We also exhibit a convenient calculus of morphisms in Mackey 2-motives, by means of string diagrams. Finally, we show that the 2-endomorphism ring of the identity of GG in this 2-category of Mackey 2-motives is isomorphic to the so-called crossed Burnside ring of GG.

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@article{arxiv.1808.04902,
  title  = {Mackey 2-functors and Mackey 2-motives},
  author = {Paul Balmer and Ivo Dell'Ambrogio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.04902},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

213 pages, many beautiful figures

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