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Algebra over generalized rings

Algebraic Geometry 2020-06-30 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

For a commutative ring AA, we have the category of (bounded-below) chain complexes of AA-modules Ch+(A\mymod)Ch_{+}(A\mymod), a closed symmetric monoidal category with a compatible stable Quillen model structure. The associated homotopy category is the derived category \mathbbmD(A\mymod)\mathbbm{D}(A\mymod), where one inverts all the quasi-isomorphisms, and it has the good description as the chain complexes made up of projective AA-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 ``\aset\aset''. For an ordinary commutative ring AA, an AA-set is just an AA-module in the usual meaning, and our construction will be equivalent to \mathbbmD(A\mymod)\mathbbm{D}(A\mymod). For the initial object of the category of generalized rings F\mathbb{F} ``the field with one element'', we obtain the category of symmetric spectra, and the associated stable homotopy category with its smash product (an F\mathbb{F}-set is just a pointed set, i.e. a set XX with a distinguish element OXXO_X\in X). 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'' A=ZRA=\Z_{\R}, the ZR\Z_{\R}-sets include the symmetric convex subsets of R\R-vector spaces. We also give the global theory of the derived category of \bigoX\bigo_X-sets, for a generalized scheme XX, in a way that is based on the local projective model structure.

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@article{arxiv.2006.15613,
  title  = {Algebra over generalized rings},
  author = {Shai Haran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.15613},
  year   = {2020}
}
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