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The Chromatic Fourier Transform

Algebraic Topology 2022-11-29 v1 Category Theory Representation Theory

Abstract

We develop a general theory of higher semiadditive Fourier transforms that includes both the classical discrete Fourier transform for finite abelian groups at height n=0n=0, as well as a certain duality for the EnE_n-(co)homology of π\pi-finite spectra, established by Hopkins and Lurie, at heights n1n\ge 1. We use this theory to generalize said duality in three different directions. First, we extend it from Z\mathbb{Z}-module spectra to all (suitably finite) spectra and use it to compute the discrepancy spectrum of EnE_n. Second, we lift it to the telescopic setting by replacing EnE_n with T(n)T(n)-local higher cyclotomic extensions, from which we deduce various results on affineness, Eilenberg--Moore formulas and Galois extensions in the telescopic setting. Third, we categorify their result into an equivalence of two symmetric monoidal \infty-categories of local systems of K(n)K(n)-local EnE_n-modules, and relate it to (semiadditive) redshift phenomena.

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@article{arxiv.2210.12822,
  title  = {The Chromatic Fourier Transform},
  author = {Tobias Barthel and Shachar Carmeli and Tomer M. Schlank and Lior Yanovski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.12822},
  year   = {2022}
}

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105 pages. Comments are welcome!

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