Constructing Witt-Burnside rings (Q2497323)

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Constructing Witt-Burnside rings
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    Constructing Witt-Burnside rings (English)
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    4 August 2006
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    The main theorem of this paper describes an isomorphism between the Witt-Burnside ring over a commutative monoid ring \({\mathbb Z}[M]\) and the Grothendieck ring of a category whose objects are almost finite \(G\)-sets \(X\) for a profinite group \(G\), equipped with a map \(X\rightarrow M\), that is constant on \(G\)-orbits. As a consequence, the author generalizes several well known maps on Witt vectors to homomorphisms between Witt-Burnside rings. The result forms the basis for a new construction of Witt-Burnside rings.
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    Burnside rings
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    generalized Witt vectors
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    profinite groups
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    commutative monoids
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