Monoidal Categories, 2-Traces, and Cyclic Cohomology

Monoidal Categories, 2-traces, and Cyclic Cohomology

In this paper we show that to a unital associative algebra object (resp. co-unital coassociative co-algebra object) of any abelian monoidal category (C,⊗) endowed with a symmetric 2-trace, i.e. an F ∈ Fun(C,Vec) satisfying some natural trace-like conditions, one can attach a cyclic (resp. cocyclic) module, and therefore speak of the (co)cyclic homology of the (co)algebra “with coefficients in F...

Traces in Monoidal Categories

Abstract. This paper contains the construction, examples and properties of a trace and a trace pairing for certain morphisms in a monoidal category with switching isomorphisms. Our construction of the categorical trace is a common generalization of the trace for endomorphisms of dualizable objects in a balanced monoidal category and the trace of nuclear operators on a topological vector space w...

Duality and Traces for Indexed Monoidal Categories

By the Lefschetz fixed point theorem, if an endomorphism of a topological space is fixed-point-free, then its Lefschetz number vanishes. This necessary condition is not usually sufficient, however; for that we need a refinement of the Lefschetz number called the Reidemeister trace. Abstractly, the Lefschetz number is a trace in a symmetric monoidal category, while the Reidemeister trace is a tr...

Cohomology of Monoids in Monoidal Categories

The Linearity of Traces in Monoidal Categories and Bicategories

We show that in any symmetric monoidal category, if a weight for colimits is absolute, then the resulting colimit of any diagram of dualizable objects is again dualizable. Moreover, in this case, if an endomorphism of the colimit is induced by an endomorphism of the diagram, then its trace can be calculated as a linear combination of traces on the objects in the diagram. The formal nature of th...