arXiv · 2606.27668
Representations of infinite species
Abstract
We consider species, consisting of a possibly infinite set of rings, and bimodules between them. Simson realised the category of representations as a functor category, which we prove is hereditary when each of the rings is semisimple. We use purity to provide sufficient conditions, in order for a representation to decompose into indecomposables with local endomorphism rings. For any bifunctor valued in bimodules, we functorially construct species equipped with commutativity conditions. This generates examples coming from a range of topics, such as subobject lattices in abelian length categories, the field choice problem in persistent homology, and topological field theories with defects.
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Raphael Bennett-Tennenhaus, Job Daisie Rock. 2026-06-26. Representations of infinite species. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.27668
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