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Publications and source records attributed to Djalal Mirmohades.
We prove that the ideal used in recent works to categorify the cyclotomic integers is generated by a cyclotomic polynomial. Moreover, we publish a proof by T. Ekedahl that the $q$-binomial relations used in the tensor product of $N$-complexes makes it necessary for the category to be enriched over the cyclotomic integers.
Let $n$ be a product of two distinct prime numbers. We construct a triangulated monoidal category having a Grothendieck ring isomorphic to the ring of $n$:th cyclotomic integers.
We study the category of $\mathbb{Z}$-indexed sequences over an abelian category and certain generalized homology functors for this category of sequences which are indexed by positive integers $a$ and $b$. By looking at the corresponding derived category, we show that there is an "optimal" subcategory of sequences for every choice of our generalized homology functors, namely, the category of $N$-complexes (sequences for which the differential $d$ satisfies $d^N = 0$) where $N = a + b$. In this optimal case we show that our homology functors reduce to Kapranov's homology functors $\operatorname{ker} d^a / \operatorname{im} d^b$.
While chain complexes are equipped with a differential $d$ satisfying $d^2 = 0$, their generalizations called $N$-complexes have a differential $d$ satisfying $d^N = 0$. In this paper we show that the lax nerve of the category of chain complexes is pointwise adjoint equivalent to the décalage of the simplicial category of $N$-complexes. This reveals additional simplicial structure on the lax nerve of the category of chain complexes which provides a categorfication of the triangulated homotopy category of chain complexes. We study this phenomena in general and present evidence that the axioms of triangulated categories have simplicial origin.