On the universal property of Waldhausen's K-theory

MaRDI QIDQ6283944zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Wolfgang Steimle

Publication date 6 March 2017

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic (K)-theory of spaces (19D10) Infinite loop spaces (55P47)

Abstract: In this note we show that Waldhausen's K-theory functor from Waldhausen categories to spaces has a universal property: It is the target of the "universal global Euler characteristic", in other words, the "additivization" of the functor sending a Waldhausen category C to obj(C) . We also show that a large class of functors possesses such an additivization.

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