English

Mackey functors and classical equivariant $K$-theory

Algebraic Topology 2025-08-18 v1 K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

We show that the spectral Mackey functors associated to the equivariant algebraic KK-theory spectra of Guillou-May and Merling (originally constructed using pointset models) can be described purely \infty-categorically in terms of the monoidal Borel construction of Barwick-Glasman-Shah and Hilman. We moreover show how P\"utzst\"uck's global version of the Borel construction provides an analogous description of the global spectral Mackey functors arising from Schwede's global algebraic KK-theory spectra. Our arguments crucially rely on techniques from parametrized higher category theory as well as on structural results on global and equivariant KK-theory to avoid any explicit computations.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2508.11525,
  title  = {Mackey functors and classical equivariant $K$-theory},
  author = {Tobias Lenz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.11525},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Theorem B was originally part of arXiv:2202.07272. 27 pages

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