English

Ambidexterity and Height

Algebraic Topology 2021-04-06 v2

Abstract

We introduce and study the notion of \emph{semiadditive height} for higher semiadditive \infty-categories, which generalizes the chromatic height. We show that the higher semiadditive structure trivializes above the height and prove a form of the redshift principle, in which categorification increases the height by one. In the stable setting, we show that a higher semiadditive \infty-category decomposes into a product according to height, and relate the notion of height to semisimplicity properties of local systems. We place the study of higher semiadditivity and stability in the general framework of smashing localizations of PrLPr^{L}, which we call \emph{modes}. Using this theory, we introduce and study the universal stable \infty-semiadditive \infty-category of semiadditive height nn, and give sufficient conditions for a stable 11-semiadditive \infty-category to be \infty-semiadditive.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2007.13089,
  title  = {Ambidexterity and Height},
  author = {Shachar Carmeli and Tomer M. Schlank and Lior Yanovski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.13089},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

78 pages, 1 figure. Removed (disproved) conjectures. Shortened "nil-conservativity" subsection

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