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Shadows and traces in bicategories (English)
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18 November 2013
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The classical trace of a square matrix over a field was generalized to traces in symmetric monoidal categories. These symmetric monoidal traces have many applications; for instance, their functoriality directly implies the Lefschetz theorem. There are also ``noncommutative traces'', such as the Hattori-Stallings trace for modules over a noncommutative rings. This paper studies a generalization of the symmetric monoidal trace which applies to noncommutative situations; its context is a bicategory equipped with an extra structure called a ``shadow''. These new traces are functorial, which is essential to applications in fixed-point theory.
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bicategory
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trace
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fixed-point theory
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