Notions of Möbius inversion (Q1932148)

The original Möbius inversion as well as its generalizations by Rota and others to posets and categories all require some form of finiteness. In the article, the author introduces a unifying framework for the study of both fine and coarse Möbius inversion for suitable categories and, for the coarse version, also for enriched categories. The definitions require quite straightforward adaptations of finiteness conditions on the category, however to allow for categories with infinitely many objects, the following result about matrices, interesting on its own right, is proved in an appendix (Theorem A.4): Let \(Z\) be an invertible, transitive, \(n\times n\) matrix over \(k\). Let \(i,j\in \{1,\ldots, n\}\). Then \(Z_{ij}=0\implies (Z^{-1})_{ij}=0\). The article is very well written and is self-contained. It provides for a clear comparison between existing notions of Möbius inversion as well as significantly broader the class of structures allowing Möbius inversion, presents several interesting examples, and presents a detailed functoriality analysis.