Two-vector spaces and groupoids

DOI10.1007/S10485-010-9225-0zbMATH Open1235.18009arXiv0810.2361OpenAlexW3098975634MaRDI QIDQ647448FDOQ647448

Authors: Jeffrey Colin Morton 

Publication date: 23 November 2011

Published in: Applied Categorical Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper describes a relationship between essentially finite groupoids and 2-vector spaces. In particular, we show to construct 2-vector spaces of Vect-valued presheaves on such groupoids. We define 2-linear maps corresponding to functors between groupoids in both a covariant and contravariant way, which are ambidextrous adjoints. This is used to construct a representation--a weak functor--from Span(Gpd) (the bicategory of groupoids and spans of groupoids) into 2Vect. In this paper we prove this and give the construction in detail.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2361

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zbMATH Keywords

groupoidsabelian categoriestwo-functorstwo-vector spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Adjoint functors (universal constructions, reflective subcategories, Kan extensions, etc.) (18A40) Groupoids (i.e. small categories in which all morphisms are isomorphisms) (20L05) Preadditive, additive categories (18E05)

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