Duals of Higher Vector Spaces

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Autores principales: Ronchi, Stefano, Zhu, Chenchang
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author Ronchi, Stefano
Zhu, Chenchang
author_facet Ronchi, Stefano
Zhu, Chenchang
contents We introduce a notion of ``$n$-dual'' to a simplicial vector space for $n\ge 0$. Coming with it, there is a canonical pairing, which we show to be non-degenerate up to homotopy for homotopy $n$-types. As a result this notion of duality is reflexive up to homotopy for $n$-types. In particular the same properties hold for $n$-groupoid objects in vector spaces, whose $n$-duals are again such $n$-groupoid objects. We study this construction in the context of the Dold-Kan correspondence and we reformulate the Eilenberg-Zilber theorem, which classically controls monoidality of the Dold-Kan functors, in terms of internal homs. We compute explicitly the 1-dual of a groupoid object and the 2-dual of a 2-groupoid object in the category of vector spaces. As the 1-dual of a groupoid object, we recover its dual as a $\mathsf{VB}$ groupoid over a point.
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spellingShingle Duals of Higher Vector Spaces
Ronchi, Stefano
Zhu, Chenchang
Differential Geometry
Algebraic Topology
Category Theory
18D40, 18G31, 18N50, 53D17
We introduce a notion of ``$n$-dual'' to a simplicial vector space for $n\ge 0$. Coming with it, there is a canonical pairing, which we show to be non-degenerate up to homotopy for homotopy $n$-types. As a result this notion of duality is reflexive up to homotopy for $n$-types. In particular the same properties hold for $n$-groupoid objects in vector spaces, whose $n$-duals are again such $n$-groupoid objects. We study this construction in the context of the Dold-Kan correspondence and we reformulate the Eilenberg-Zilber theorem, which classically controls monoidality of the Dold-Kan functors, in terms of internal homs. We compute explicitly the 1-dual of a groupoid object and the 2-dual of a 2-groupoid object in the category of vector spaces. As the 1-dual of a groupoid object, we recover its dual as a $\mathsf{VB}$ groupoid over a point.
title Duals of Higher Vector Spaces
topic Differential Geometry
Algebraic Topology
Category Theory
18D40, 18G31, 18N50, 53D17
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03306