Tambarization of a Mackey functor and its application to the Witt-Burnside construction

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2011.04.015zbMATH Open1225.19002arXiv1010.0812OpenAlexW2034393365MaRDI QIDQ549221FDOQ549221

Hiroyuki Nakaoka

Publication date: 7 July 2011

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For an arbitrary group $G$, a (semi-)Mackey functor is a pair of covariant and contravariant functors from the category of $G$-sets, and is regarded as a $G$-bivariant analog of a commutative (semi-)group. In this view, a $G$-bivariant analog of a (semi-)ring should be a (semi-)Tambara functor. A Tambara functor is firstly defined by Tambara, which he called a TNR-functor, when $G$ is finite. As shown by Brun, a Tambara functor plays a natural role in the Witt-Burnside construction. It will be a natural question if there exist sufficiently many examples of Tambara functors, compared to the wide range of Mackey functors. In the first part of this article, we give a general construction of a Tambara functor from any Mackey functor, on an arbitrary group $G$. In fact, we construct a functor from the category of semi-Mackey functors to the category of Tambara functors. This functor gives a left adjoint to the forgetful functor, and can be regarded as a $G$-bivariant analog of the monoid-ring functor. In the latter part, when $G$ is finite, we invsetigate relations with other Mackey-functorial constructions ---crossed Burnside ring, Elliott's ring of $G$-strings, Jacobson's $F$-Burnside ring--- all these lead to the study of the Witt-Burnside construction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0812

zbMATH Keywords

Mackey functorGreen functorTambara functorBrauer ringcrossed Burnside ringWitt-Burnside ring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Frobenius induction, Burnside and representation rings (19A22)

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Cited In (7)

• Biset transformations of Tambara functors
• The spectrum of the Burnside Tambara functor on a finite cyclic \(p\)-group
• Ideals of Tambara functors
• On the fractions of semi-Mackey and Tambara functors
• A generalization of the Dress construction for a Tambara functor, and its relation to polynomial Tambara functors
• Tambara Functors on Profinite Groups and Generalized Burnside Functors
• Categorical constructions related to finite groups

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