Algebra over generalized rings
Abstract
For a commutative ring , we have the category of (bounded-below) chain complexes of -modules , a closed symmetric monoidal category with a compatible stable Quillen model structure. The associated homotopy category is the derived category , where one inverts all the quasi-isomorphisms, and it has the good description as the chain complexes made up of projective -module in each dimension, and chain maps taken up to chain homotopy. We give here the analogous theory for a (commutative) generalized ring in the sense of \cite{MR3605614}. We refer to the new concept as ``''. For an ordinary commutative ring , an -set is just an -module in the usual meaning, and our construction will be equivalent to . For the initial object of the category of generalized rings ``the field with one element'', we obtain the category of symmetric spectra, and the associated stable homotopy category with its smash product (an -set is just a pointed set, i.e. a set with a distinguish element ). Thus the analogous theories of stable homotopy and of chain complexes of modules over a commutative ring appear as two sides of the same coin, and moreover, they appear in a context where they interact (via the forgetful functor and its left adjoint - the base change functor). For the ``real integers'' , the -sets include the symmetric convex subsets of -vector spaces. We also give the global theory of the derived category of -sets, for a generalized scheme , in a way that is based on the local projective model structure.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2006.15613,
title = {Algebra over generalized rings},
author = {Shai Haran},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.15613},
year = {2020}
}