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Spectra associated to symmetric monoidal bicategories

Algebraic Topology 2013-08-29 v2 Category Theory K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

We show how to construct a Gamma-bicategory from a symmetric monoidal bicategory, and use that to show that the classifying space is an infinite loop space upon group completion. We also show a way to relate this construction to the classic Gamma-category construction for a bipermutative category. As an example, we use this machinery to construct a delooping of the K-theory of a bimonoidal category as defined by Baas-Dundas-Rognes.

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@article{arxiv.1005.2227,
  title  = {Spectra associated to symmetric monoidal bicategories},
  author = {Angélica Osorno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.2227},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

27 pages; originally submitted as: "An Infinite Loop Space Structure for K-theory of Bimonoidal Categories", this version has essentially the same content, but the organization is different

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