The additive completion of the biset category (Q2403975)

The authors consider the category \(\mathcal{C}_R,\) where the objects are the fractions \(X/G\) where \(G\) is a finite group, \(X\) is a finite \(G\)-set, and the morphisms given by \(R\)-linear combinations of spans of bisets. The objects of this category admits a Krull-Schmidt decomposition, but it is not a Krull-Schmidt category. This category \(\mathcal{C}_R\) is additive, symmetric monoidal and self-dual, and it is equivalent to the additive completion of the biset category. They show that the category of biset functors is equivalent to the category of \(R\)-linear functors from \(\mathcal{C}_R\) to \(R\)-Mod. They also show that the restriction of one of these functors to a certain subcategory of \(\mathcal{C}_R\) is a fused Mackey functor (this term was defined by \textit{S. Bouc} [Geom. Dedicata 176, 225--240 (2015; Zbl 1327.19001)]).