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Antipodes of monoidal decomposition spaces

Algebraic Topology 2021-03-31 v2 Combinatorics Category Theory Rings and Algebras

Abstract

We introduce a notion of antipode for monoidal (complete) decomposition spaces, inducing a notion of weak antipode for their incidence bialgebras. In the connected case, this recovers the usual notion of antipode in Hopf algebras. In the non-connected case it expresses an inversion principle of more limited scope, but still sufficient to compute the M\"obius function as μ=ζS\mu = \zeta \circ S, just as in Hopf algebras. At the level of decomposition spaces, the weak antipode takes the form of a formal difference of linear endofunctors SevenSoddS_{\textrm{even}} - S_{\textrm{odd}}, and it is a refinement of the general M\"obius inversion construction of G\'{a}lvez-Kock-Tonks, but exploiting the monoidal structure.

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@article{arxiv.1807.11858,
  title  = {Antipodes of monoidal decomposition spaces},
  author = {Louis Carlier and Joachim Kock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.11858},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

14 pages. Dedicated to the memory of Thomas Poguntke. v2: minor expository adjustments; final version to appear in Commun. Contemp. Math

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