Abstract
By homotopy linear algebra we mean the study of linear functors between slices of the ∞-category of ∞-groupoids, subject to certain finiteness conditions. After some standard definitions and results, we assemble said slices into ∞-categories to model the duality between vector spaces and profinite-dimensional vector spaces, and set up a global notion of homotopy cardinality à la Baez, Hoffnung and Walker compatible with this duality. We needed these results to support our work on incidence algebras and Möbius inversion over ∞-groupoids; we hope that they can also be of independent interest.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 293-325 |
Number of pages | 33 |
Journal | Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics |
Volume | 148 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2018 |
Keywords
- duality
- homotopy cardinality
- homotopy finiteness
- infinity-groupoids
- linear algebra