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- Title
DUALITY AND TRACES FOR INDEXED MONOIDAL CATEGORIES.
- Authors
PONTO, KATE; SHULMAN, MICHAEL
- Abstract
By the Lefschetz fixed point theorem, if an endomorphism of a topological space is fixed-point-free, then its Lefschetz number vanishes. This necessary condition is not usually suficient, however; for that we need a refinement of the Lefschetz number called the Reidemeister trace. Abstractly, the Lefschetz number is a trace in a symmetric monoidal category, while the Reidemeister trace is a trace in a bicategory; in this paper we relate these contexts using indexed symmetric monoidal categories. In particular, we will show that for any symmetric monoidal category with an associated indexed symmetric monoidal category, there is an associated bicategory which produces refinements of trace analogous to the Reidemeister trace. This bicategory also produces a new notion of trace for parametrized spaces with dualizable fibers, which refines the obvious \fiberwise" traces by incorporating the action of the fundamental group of the base space. We also advance the basic theory of indexed monoidal categories, including introducing a string diagram calculus which makes calculations much more tractable. This abstract framework lays the foundation for generalizations of these ideas to other contexts
- Subjects
BLOWING up (Algebraic geometry); HOMOLOGICAL algebra; MODEL categories (Mathematics); MORPHISMS (Mathematics); STIMULUS generalization
- Publication
Theory & Applications of Categories, 2012, Vol 26, Issue 2, p582
- ISSN
1201-561X
- Publication type
Article