Grothendieck groups and a categorification of additive invariants

DOI10.1142/S0129167X12500577zbMATH Open1252.55003arXiv1111.4262MaRDI QIDQ2885375FDOQ2885375

Authors: Jörg Schürmann, Shoji Yokura 

Publication date: 23 May 2012

Published in: International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A topologically-invariant and additive homology class is mostly not a natural transformation as it is. In this paper we discuss turning such a homology class into a natural transformation; i.e., a "categorification" of it. In a general categorical set-up we introduce a generalized relative Grothendieck group from a cospan of functors of categories and also consider a categorification of additive invariants on objects. As an example, we obtain a general theory of characteristic homology classes of singular varieties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4262

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zbMATH Keywords

categorificationbordismhomology classcharacteristic classSteenrod's problemcospan

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Generalized (extraordinary) homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology (55N20) General theory of categories and functors (18A99) Riemann-Roch theorems (14C40)

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