Traces in monoidal derivators, and homotopy colimits

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Abstract: A variant of the trace in a monoidal category is given in the setting of closed monoidal derivators, which is applicable to endomorphisms of fiberwise dualizable objects. Functoriality of this trace is established. As an application, an explicit formula for the trace of the homotopy colimit of endomorphisms over finite EI-categories is deduced. This result can be seen as a generalization of the additivity of traces in monoidal categories with a compatible triangulation.


The authors construct a notion of trace, called an external trace, associated to a closed monoidal derivator. They show that in certain conditions the trace of the homotopy colimit of an endomorphism of a fibewise dualisable object can be expressed in terms of an external trace. This leads to an explicit formula for the trace when the derivator is a \(\mathbb{Q}\)-linear triangulated derivator and when the underlying category is a finite EI-category; here an EI-category is a category in which every endomorphism is invertible. The result generalises the additivity of traces in monoidal categories with compatible triangulations.











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