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Maximal compatibility of disklike $G$-transfer systems

Algebraic Topology 2026-04-02 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Transfer systems are a combinatorial model for NN_{\infty}-operads, which encode commutative structures in equivariant homotopy theory. Blumberg--Hill and Chan gave criteria for when two transfer systems are a compatible pair, meaning they encode the additive transfers and multiplicative norms of a ring-type structure. In this paper, given a transfer system encoding an additive structure, we give explicit formulae for the maximal transfer system it is compatible with. Our formulae simplify for disklike transfer systems, which typically encode additive structures. Further, we prove that (maximal) compatibility is functorial with respect to the inflation map induced by a quotient of groups, letting us compute maximal compatible transfer systems as inflations of connected transfer systems.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2604.00335,
  title  = {Maximal compatibility of disklike $G$-transfer systems},
  author = {David DeMark and Michael A. Hill and Yigal Kamel and Nelson Niu and Kurt Stoeckl and Danika Van Niel and Guoqi Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.00335},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

25 pages, comments welcome

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