Tambarization of a Mackey functor and its application to the Witt-Burnside construction

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2011.04.015MaRDI QIDQ549221zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hiroyuki Nakaoka

Publication date 7 July 2011

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0812

zbMATH Keywords

Brauer ringcrossed Burnside ringGreen functorMackey functorTambara functorWitt-Burnside ring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Frobenius induction, Burnside and representation rings (19A22)

Abstract: For an arbitrary group $G$, a (semi-)Mackey functor is a pair of covariant and contravariant functors from the category of $G$-sets, and is regarded as a $G$-bivariant analog of a commutative (semi-)group. In this view, a $G$-bivariant analog of a (semi-)ring should be a (semi-)Tambara functor. A Tambara functor is firstly defined by Tambara, which he called a TNR-functor, when $G$ is finite. As shown by Brun, a Tambara functor plays a natural role in the Witt-Burnside construction. It will be a natural question if there exist sufficiently many examples of Tambara functors, compared to the wide range of Mackey functors. In the first part of this article, we give a general construction of a Tambara functor from any Mackey functor, on an arbitrary group $G$. In fact, we construct a functor from the category of semi-Mackey functors to the category of Tambara functors. This functor gives a left adjoint to the forgetful functor, and can be regarded as a $G$-bivariant analog of the monoid-ring functor. In the latter part, when $G$ is finite, we invsetigate relations with other Mackey-functorial constructions ---crossed Burnside ring, Elliott's ring of $G$-strings, Jacobson's $F$-Burnside ring--- all these lead to the study of the Witt-Burnside construction.

Review text

A (semi-)Tambara functor on a group \(G\) is a (semi-)Mackey functor on \(G\), equipped with additional structure. The additional structure is motivated by the norm map on cohomology and by the tensor induction of representations. In the paper under review, the author constructs a functor from the category of (semi-)Mackey functors on \(G\) to the category of Tambara functors on \(G\) which is left adjoint to the forgetful functor. Then he relates his construction to several other topics in the literature: crossed Burnside rings as studied by \textit{F. Oda} and \textit{T. Yoshida} [J. Algebra 327, No.~1, 31--49 (2011; Zbl 1217.19001)], Witt-Burnside rings as studied by \textit{M. Brun} [Adv. Math. 193, No.~2, 233--256 (2005; Zbl 1078.19001)] and the Brauer ring of a field extension, as studied by \textit{E. T. Jacobson} [Ill. J. Math. 30, 479--510 (1986; Zbl 0602.13003)].

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• Tambara Functors on Profinite Groups and Generalized Burnside Functors
• Biset transformations of Tambara functors
• The spectrum of the Burnside Tambara functor on a finite cyclic \(p\)-group
• On the fractions of semi-Mackey and Tambara functors
• Ideals of Tambara functors
• Categorical constructions related to finite groups
• The crossed Burnside rings. III: The Dress construction for a Tambara functor
• Objective Mackey and Tambara functors via parametrized categories
• The subgroup stratification of Nakaoka spectra

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