Algebraic models for 1-dimensional categories of rational -spectra
Abstract.
In this paper we give algebraic models for rational -spectra for a compact Lie group when the geometric isotropy is restricted to lie in a 1-dimensional block of conjugacy classes. This includes all blocks of all groups of dimension 1, semifree spectra, and 1-dimensional blocks for many other groups .
1. Introduction
If we pick a set of conjugacy classes of (closed) subgroups of a compact Lie group we can consider the category of -spectra whose geometric isotropy is contained in , and it is conjectured [9] that there is a small and calculable abelian model so that the category DG- of differential graded objects in is a model for in the sense that there is a Quillen equivalence
The purpose of the present paper is to verify the conjecture in a range of particularly simple cases.
The space of conjugacy classes of closed subgroups of has two topologies of interest. First of all, it has the h-topology, which is the quotient topology of the Hausdorff metric topology on . It also has the Zariski topology, whose closed sets are the h-closed sets which are also closed under passage to cotoral subgroups111 is cotoral in if is normal in with quotient being a torus. For conjugacy classes is cotoral in if the relation holds for some representative subgroups.. Since is a subset of it also acquires two topologies, though it will not necessarily be a spectral space.
The very simplest case is when is h-discrete and there are no non-trivial cotoral relations (we say is of Thomason height 0). In this case the conjecture is immediate from results of [21], and the model is described by
and
where has identity component and component group .
It is the purpose of the present paper to prove the conjecture in a range of cases when is one step more complicated, so that it has a subspace of Thomason height 0 and one additional point . The symbol will be used for this point throughout this paper. Thus we either have a cotoral inclusion for some or else is an h-limit of points of . We will also restrict the group theory by assuming consists of finite groups, and has finite index in its normalizer (most examples we make explicit also have ). This is restrictive, but it permits a simple exposition and covers the cases of immediate interest. Section 10 describes some of the complications that arise as more cases are covered.
The method is closely based on that used for the circle group and for the two blocks of , but it is more uniform and covers many other cases. The cases covered include all blocks of 1-dimensional groups and semi-free -spectra when is a torus. It also covers the block of full subgroups of a toral group (the identity component is a torus) where the -module is simple. Already these cases display a range of different behaviour.
It is helpful to bear some examples in mind.
Example 1.1.
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The space need not be irreducible. This means that is not necessarily a generic point.
For example if in the h-topology is the one point compactification of a countable set and the cotoral relation is trivial. This is the case for the dihedral subgroups of .
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(2)
The space need not be compact in the h-topology. For example we may add infinitely many points to a compact example without adding the limit point. It is easy to construct such examples with the 2-torus (see (4)).
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(3)
A more extreme form of this is when every neighbourhood of contains an infinite set of which it is not the limit. For example is the 2-torus, and the other points are the finite subgroups of .
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The space may be discrete in the h-topology. For example we may take to be the 2-torus and to consist of the proper subgroups of .
It is natural to want to generalize these results. The arguments presented here also prove the conjecture in many other 1-dimensional cases, and the natural level of generality is not yet clear; some cases may best be treated as subcategories of higher dimensional examples. In any case, our focus here will be on expository simplicity rather than greatest generality. Section 10 discusses ways to relax the restrictions.
1.A. Associated work in preparation
This paper is the second in a series of 5 constructing an algebraic category and showing it gives an algebraic model for rational -spectra. This series gives a concrete illustrations of general results in small and accessible examples.
The first paper [13] describes the group theoretic data that feeds into the construction of an abelian category for all toral groups and makes them explicit for toral subgroups of rank 2 connected groups. The present paper (which does not logically depend on [13]) constructs algebraic models for all relevant 1-dimensional blocks. The paper [14] gives an algebraic model for the maximal torus normalizer in .
The paper [15] assembles this information and that from [4] to give an abelian category in 7 blocks and shows it is an algebraic model for rational -spectra. Finally, the paper [16] constructs in 18 blocks and shows it is equivalent to the category of rational -spectra. The most complicated parts of the model for and are the toral blocks, which are based on the work in the present paper.
This series is part of a more general programme. Future installments will consider blocks with Noetherian Balmer spectra [19] and those with no cotoral inclusions [17]. An account of the general nature of the models is in preparation [18], and the author hopes that this will be the basis of the proof that the category of rational -spectra has an algebraic model in general.
1.B. Contents
The paper is divided into two parts. Part 1 is essentially algebraic and Part 2 shows that appropriate categories of rational -spectra are equivalent to the algebraic models.
The main part of the paper gives an algebraic model for a 1-dimensional block with a single dominant subgroup. To show that this is useful, we start in Section 2 by showing that for a 1-dimensional group, the space of subgroups can be decomposed into such blocks, and furthermore the auxiliary data can be describe in these terms. Thereafter we have in mind a single 1-dimensional block. In Section 3 we describe the data required to build the model, and in Section 4 we describe how this data can be obtained for compact Lie groups. In Section 5 we explain how to build the model from the data, and we show how to work with the category, inparticular proving it is of injective dimension 1.
We begin Part 2 in Section 6 by describing the general strategy for showing a 1-dimensional block has an algebraic model.
It is rather well known that for a connected compact Lie group , the category of cofree -spectra is a category of complete modules over , and that this can easily be adapted to disconnected groups. In Section 7 we show that the category of modules over is the corresponding category of modules over without any completeness condition, and that the model for cofree -spectra is obtained by completion. This gives the stalkwise model, and it is quite easy to assemble this algebraically over the height 0 subgroups. However for the splicing to the height 1 subgroup we need to have a common framework. The new complication here is having to deal with the varying component structure, and the method for doing that is described in Section 8. This completes the account of the model over height 0 subgroups, and finally in Section 9 we assemble the information over height 0 and height 1 groups to establish that 1-dimensional blocks are algebraic. In Section 10 we review the technical difficulties that need to be tackled to give further generalization.
Part I Algebra
2. Full subgroups
The purpose of this section is to show that for 1-dimensional groups the category of -spectra breaks into pieces each one of which is covered by our general analysis. This comes in two steps. Firstly, we establish a decomposition indexed by conjugacy classes of subgroups of the component group . Secondly, we show that it suffices to consider the case when , in the sense that the model in the general case can often be easily deduced from the full case.
For the purpose of this section, we suppose that has identity component a torus and lives in an extension
2.A. Partition by subgroups of the component group
For any compact Lie group , one may show that the space can be partitioned into blocks dominated by a single group. When is a toral group there is a partition that takes a particularly simple form. Since any 1-dimensional group has identity component a circle, this case is covered automatically.
Lemma 2.1.
[13, 2.1] For a toral group as above, the space of conjugacy classes of subgroups of the toral group is partitioned into pieces, one for each conjugacy class of subgroups of .
If , the set
is clopen in the Hausdorff metric topology and closed under passage to cotoral subgroups. Furthermore, is dominated by in the sense that it consists of all subgroups cotoral in .
Accordingly, the Balmer spectrum with its Zariski topology is a coproduct
Remark 2.2.
(a) The partition is crude, in the sense that the sets can often be decomposed further.
(b) Subgroups mapping onto are called full, and the component of full subgroups is . Most of the rest of the paper will focus on full subgroups because the component of can be studied in the group as explained in Subsection 2.B below.
(c) Since subgroups of with image are by definition subgroups of , the map is surjective, and the only effect is fusion of -conjugacy classes to form -conjugacy classes. Fusion can nonetheless have significant effects (for example the map factors through ).
2.B. Reduction to full subgroups
Continuing with a toral group , in analysing , we may reduce to the case that is normal in .
To see this, let . The -conjugacy class may split into several -conjugacy classes . There is a corresponding splitting of the idempotent : . These idempotents may be inflated to , and we see
Since the are conjugate in , the factors are equivalent using conjugation by elements of . For subgroups with , the relevant map of underlying spaces is
Lemma 2.3.
Suppose and let . Restriction induces a full and faithful functor
The essential image consists of -spectra which are constant on the factors in the sense that they correspond under conjugation by . Composing with restriction to one factor, we obtain an equivalence
Remark 2.4.
This shows directly that the two categories should have equivalent models. In fact we observe that , so that the sheaf of rings and component structures also agree. Thus, corresponding to the equivalence of categories of -spectra we have an equivalence
Proof :โWe must show the map is full, faithful and essentially surjective.
The map
is induced by of
-spectra. Now , and the fixed points consist of
cosets so that . The fact that restriction is an
isomorphism follows since the map is an
equivalence in -fixed points.
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Next, we may further reduce to working with if we take into account the action of the Weyl group .
Lemma 2.5.
If , the geometric isotropy of consists of subgroups of then restriction induces an isomorphism
Proof :โWe have an equivalence , and the spectral
sequence of the skeletal filtration of gives the
isomorphism.
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Remark 2.6.
This shows that to understand -spectra we need only understand spectra together with an action of the finite group . However one does need to bear in mind that acts on the space of subgroups as well as all other elements of the construction.
Combining this with Lemma 2.3, as in [10, 6.10], this shows we have a reduction to the case of full subgroups, and we may take
Note that in this statement may act non-trivially on , so the right hand category is not simply with an action of , and considerable elucidation along the lines of [10] is necessary. With these caveats, we may reduce to the case of full subgroups.
This strategy is especially effective if is 1-dimensional since the action of on the identity component does not permute subgroups. In this case we find
and in fact the Weyl groups are of the same dimension so that the structure sheaves of rings will agree. The component groups will differ since the group certainly acts for -spectra. Indeed, if there is a map
since is characteristic, and hence there is a map
but this need not be an isomorphism for all .
3. Ingredients for the abelian models
The rest of our analysis supposes that we are considering -spectra with geometric isotropy in a 1-dimensional space of a special form. In fact we suppose given a countable set of conjugacy classes subgroups. As a subspace of it is discrete and we assume .
For example if is a 1-dimensional group we may choose a subgroup of the component group and suppose consists of the finite subgroups of with and .
3.A. Decomposing
We start with a countable set of conjugacy classes of finite subgroups, and . It is convenient to partition .
Lemma 3.1.
There is a partition into Zariski clopen sets where
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consists of subgroups cotoral in .
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consists of subgroups not cotoral in but has as a limit point and
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the remainder has no limit points in .
Proof :โIf is not a limit point when we remove we take
and . Otherwise, we
choose an h-neighbourhood of , and take and .
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Remark 3.2.
It is disappointing that we cannot generally give a canonical decomposition, and that the pieces cannot be simpler.
(i) Example 1.1 (3) shows that it may happen that every choice of contains an infinite set without as a limit point, so could be moved into .
(ii) Even if is a limit point of every infinite subset of , the partition is not canonical, since any finite set of points can be moved between and .
Remark 3.3.
(i) If and is a limit point of every infinite subset of , we say is almost irreducible.
(ii) The topology is determined by the closed subsets of not containing . This contains the finite subsets of , and if it contains no other subsets, is the one point compactification of .
We discuss some examples and then show that in many cases it suffices to deal with the special cases (Type 0) and (Type 1).
The models differ in character according to the sizes of and : even in this very special context, a wide variety of behaviours is possible.
Example 3.4.
Here is a small selection of almost irreducible examples with infinite.
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(1)
If all subgroups are cotoral in , so in all cases . Nonetheless these cases can vary in character.
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If consists of all subgroups then is the 1-point compactification.
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(b)
If then the h-topology is discrete.
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(c)
If then there is an infinite subset of without limit points.
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If consists of all finite subgroups, then it has infinitely many limit points.
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(a)
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(2)
We may have both and infinite. For example and then take with , and .
A property holds almost everywhere in if it holds except for a closed subset of lying in (in the almost irreducible case, this means for all but a finite number of points of ).
Decompositions of lead to decompositions of the model. We illustrate with two special cases.
Example 3.5.
(i) We may always write and then
where is described in the introduction. The existence of idempotents in the Burnside ring shows there is a corresponding decomposition of spectra, so for most purposes we may assume .
(ii) If is almost irreducible then (with the wedge point being ) where (one point compactification) and . There is then a pullback square
and similarly for spectra.
An important example example consists of subroups of of dimension with , where consists of 1-dimensional subgroups containing the central circle, and consists of 1-dimensional subgroups containing all elements .
3.B. Auxiliary data
The model for -spectra with geometric isotropy in is a category whose objects are equivariant sheaves of modules over a sheaf of rings over . In the 1-dimensional case, rather than making explicit all of the adjectives to make this precise, we will give the data required directly. We require the additional data of a โsheaf of ringsโ and a โcomponent structureโ which specifies the equivariance together with a โcoordinate structureโ linking the topology and algebra.
Definition 3.6.
(a) A sheaf of rings on consists of commutative polynomial rings for and , and a ring homomorphisms for almost all .
(b) A component structure on consists of finite groups for and , together with a homomorphism for almost all .
(c) The component structure has an action on if acts on and acts on so that is -equivariant.
We also need to relate the topology on to the algebra of the sheaves. For this we need functions whose vanishing determines the topology.
Definition 3.7.
An coordinate structure on a sheaf of rings om is a collection of multiplicatively closed sets in for . For , we take , and for we take .
If there is a compatible component structure we say is compatible if the elements of are invariant under the action.
We will show in Section 4 below that there is a sheaf of rings and a compatible component structure arising in the Lie group context.
4. Equivariant sheaf data in the geometric context
In this section we explain describe the necessary auxiliary data from Subsection 3.B in the motivating example of a compact Lie group. It is notable that we need to use the fact we are working over the rationals to give a splitting principle to obtain the structure in full generality.
4.A. Sheaves and component structures
The simplest way to ensure a sheaf of rings with compatible component structure is to have a homomorphism extending an inclusion . In this case it is straightforward since there is an induced map
The map on identity components supplies a map , and it is equivariant for the map .
We may ensure this is the case for since the normalizer construction is upper semi-continuous [1, 9.8] so that for almost all . It is often reasonable for cotoral inclusions too: for example we might suppose for all . Often we may be able to reduce to this case. For example if is a singleton we have the familiar question of how to allow for the restriction from to .
However we want to cover the general case (for example if ). For this we proceed as follows. After conjugation, we may suppose with is a torus. We may then choose a maximal torus of containing and write for its inverse image in . We see (since the cotoral relation is transitive [6]) that both and are cotoral . The image of in is a torus, so we can choose the maximal torus of to contain it. In fact is itself a maximal torus, since otherwise its inverse image would have image in properly containing the maximal torus . The situation is depicted below.
Now if is an element of whose image in normalizes , normalizes , and hence its image in normalizes .
Writing for Borelโs rational cohomology isomorphism , we have a map
as required.
4.B. Localization
In the geometric context we take
and on we take the trivial multiplicative set.
5. The abelian models
In Subsection 5.A we describe the standard model formed from the space and its auxiliary data . In Subsections 5.B and 5.C we describe a stalkwise construction and the relation to the standard model. In Subsection 5.D we name two cases of somewhat different characters, based on the dimension of the stalks of the sheaf . In Subsection 5.E we construct injective resolutions in the standard model, showing it is of injective dimension 1. Finally, in Subsection 5.F we make this explicit in some familiar examples (some readers may wish to flick forward to the examples as they read).
5.A. The standard model
Given , a sheaf of rings, with Euler classes and a compatible component structure we may describe the standard model .
We take , and we form the multiplicatively closed set
Now we consider the diagram of rings
The standard model consists of -modules
where (1) the -module is torsion, (2) (quasicoherence) the horizontal induces an isomorphism and (3) (extendedness) the vertical induces an isomorphism .
We refer to as the nub and as the vertex, and informally we write for the above object.
There are compatible actions of the finite groups. Thus the th component of each element of is invariant, there is an action of on , and of on , and the map is -equivariant.
5.B. Separating subgroups
As described in [3] one expects two different models where the subgroups are considered separately (the โseparated modelโ where there is still a weak condition on the vertical map, and the โcomplete modelโ, where the -module is complete in a suitable sense but there is no condition on the vertical map). We begin by describing functors for separating and recombining the subgroups.
The pre-separated model consists of a torsion -module with an action of and -modules with an action of for each together with a spreading map
We require that the map is -equivariant.
5.C. Adjunction
There is an adjunction
relating the standard and preseparated models. The constructions we describe are all consistent with the actions of the component structure, so actions will not be mentioned explicitly.
If then has the same vertex and the separated stalk at is where is the idempotent supported at . The structure map is the composite
If then has the same vertex and the nub is defined by the pullback square
Since , the unit gives an isomorphism .
On the other hand the counit need not be an isomorphism. For example, if has the property that for all , we find has nub , and has stalk at , which need not be zero.
5.D. Two structure sheaves
Finally we consider two structure sheaves with somewhat different behaviours. These correspond to the two cases and . The present account focuses on a particularly simple choice of sheaf that covers examples of immediate interest.
Definition 5.1.
The Type 0 structure sheaf has and for all and is the multiplicatively closed set of functions with finite support and is infinite.
The Type 1 structure sheaf has and for all and is the multiplicatively closed set of functions with finite support.
The crudest difference between the types is about whether the standard and separated models are essentially different.
Lemma 5.2.
For the Type 0 structure sheaf, the adjunction is an equivalence of categories.
Proof :โThe statement about Type 0 structure sheaves follows since , so that applying to the defining pullback for we
recover .
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To explain the situation with Type 1 structure sheaf we need to recall the models of the generating basic cells
Lemma 5.3.
The Type 1 structure sheaf the counit of the adjunction is not an equivalence, but it is a cellular equivalence in the sense that it induces an isomorphism of and
Proof :โWith Type 1 structure sheaves, the counit is not an isomorphism in the given example of a skyscraper sheaf at .
For the cells the cellular equivalence is clear since , which does not change under the functor . For the cell we note that is calculated as a pullback square:
In other words the comparison map is the map relating to the inner and outer pullbacks in the diagram
Since the square is a pullback by definition, the map is an
isomorphism.
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5.E. Homological algebra of the standard model
It is an easy exercise to understand this abelian category, but it is useful to work it through for reference in higher dimensional contexts. By Maschkeโs Theorem the actions of the component groups do not affect the homological dimension.
Lemma 5.4.
If the structure sheaf is of Type 0 or Type 1, the standard abelian category is of injective dimension 1.
Remark 5.5.
(a) One point of writing this down is to highlight the slightly different formal structure of the proof in Type 0 and Type 1.
(b) In Remark 5.8 below that the argument is easily adapted to give an estimate of the injective dimension when is a more general diagram of polynomial rings, but we take the opportunity to be a bit more precise in the present case.
Proof :โWe may write down enough injectives. Indeed, for any graded -vector space with an action of , the object
has the property . It is therefore injective.
Similarly if is a torsion -module, the object
lies in the standard model and has the property
It is therefore injective if is an injective -module.
Now suppose . For an arbitrary object we may take the map corresponding to the identity on ; its kernel is at the nub, where it is a module with . In either Type 0 or Type 1, this means that (direct sum!). In Type 0, is already injective, and in Type 1 we choose a resolution . In any case we may construct a monomorphism
It is at this point that the two cases differ.
In the Type 0 case, we consider the product : the value at is , which is non-zero if infinitely many terms are nonzero. The cokernel of is thus for some vector space , and we have found an injective resolution of length 1. We observe that not all objects are injective since .
In the Type 1 case, we may again proceed with the resolution, but as in Type 0, may be non-zero at . We may instead embed in the injective -torsion module . This sum of injectives is also injective, since for all -modules which occur as a nub (as in [8, 5.3.1]). This is clear for torsion modules , and it is clear for , and follows in general from this.
Accordingly, we have
found an injective resolution of length 1. It is easy to see that
the are non-split extensions (for example the short exact sequence of
torsion -modules gives non-split extensions on
applying for any ).
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Remark 5.6.
We could have used the same argument for Type 0 as for Type 1, and we would still have reached the conclusion that the category is of injective dimension 1. The point is that to use that argument we need to think in terms of modules over the ring (rather than sheaves over ), and the ring is not of injective dimension 0. The given argument relying on the fact that stalks are fields seemed more transparent.
It is useful to record the following criterion for injectivity for later reference.
Lemma 5.7.
In the Type 0 case, any object for which only finitely many of the modules are non-zero is injective.
In the Type 1 case, a module with the property that is divisible for all is injective.
Proof :โIn the Type 0 case, only finitely many of the terms are non-zero, so the product of them has zero vertex.
In the Type 1 case, the map
constructed in the previous lemma is an isomorphism. The point is that the kernel is injective and so
we can take and .
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Remark 5.8.
Essentially the same argument will show that the algebraic model is of finite injective dimension if the rings and are polynomial rings. Indeed, the full subcategory of objects is equivalent to modules. For an arbitrary object we consider the map where is the value of at and then obtain two exact sequences
where and for torsion -modules .
If is a polynomial ring on variables and has at most variables for then and hence , and therefore the same bound applies to .
5.F. Examples
Example 5.9.
(i) The very simplest case comes from the circle group . This has a single block, and we take to be the set of finite cyclic subgroups (in bijection to the positive integers by order of subgroup).
Then , we take the Type 1 structure sheaf for all , and the component structure is trivial (). The set consists of Euler classes of representations with , so that .
The model is the standard model for rational -spectra.
(ii) Next we may take and look at the toral block, again taking . Now the compactification again consists of closed subgroups of the circle . (The compactifying point in this example is ). The rings are Type 1 as in the previous example, but we take each of the groups and to be of order 2 and the maps to be isomorphisms. The action of on takes to .
The model is the model for the toral block of rational -spectra.
(iii) The model for the toral block of is precisely the same as in Part (ii).
For the other cases we will consider only the full subgroups.
Example 5.10.
(i) For . This has two blocks. The first consists of subgroups of , and the second (considered here) consists of full subgroups. We take to consist of the full subgroups of and is the compactifying point. The subgroups in are either or else the cyclic groups generated by .
This example is another Type 1 example, essentially like except that has been replaced by a different countable set.
(ii) For the space of subgroups again divides into two blocks. The first consists of subgroups of , and the second (considered here) consists of full subgroups. We take to consist of the conjugacy classes of dihedral subgroups and . This time the ring is Type 0, with for all ; the groups are all of order 2, and is trivial.
The multiplicatively closed set consists of the characteristic functions of the cofinite sets of .
The model is the model for the dihedral component of rational -spectra.
(iii) For the model is essentially the same as that for . The toral block is identical to that of and the block of full subgroups is like that for except that consists of the quaternion subgroups.
Put together we have the following algebraic models for 1-dimensional groups.
There is an equivalence , but note this is given by different bijections on the two components (in the non-toral part it is natural to choose the bijection quotienting out the central subgroup of order 2, but in the toral part we must choose a bijection between cyclic subgroups of and those of , so we cannot use the quotient map).
Example 5.11.
(i) We may consider the block corresponding to full subgroups of the normalizer in the maximal torus in . This consists of -sheaves over where is the discrete space of conjugacy classes of finite subgroups and is a group of order 3 for all and . In this case the full subgroups are , and therefore in bijection with the positive integers (see [13, Section 13] for more details).
(ii) We may consider the block corresponding to full subgroups of (a subgroup of ). Again -sheaves over where is the discrete space of conjugacy classes of finite subgroups and agan is of order 3 for all and . The set is described in [13, Section 12].
Part II Topology
6. The abelian models are Quillen models: general strategy
We will show that the abelian categories provide models in all the cases we study. The structure of the argument is the same as that for tori in [24]: we show that the sphere spectrum is the pullback of rings which are isotropically concentrated and formal in a strong sense.
6.A. Outline
The core of the proof is the fact that the sphere spectrum is a pullback of an isotropic cube, using the general inductive argument of [2, 8.1], adapted to the non-Noetherian setting.
This allows us to outline the proof: we give a symbolic description and then explain the notation and discuss the ingredients in the argument. Details will be given in the rest of the paper.
Equivalence 0 simply uses the fact that -spectra are modules over the sphere spectrum. Equivalence 1 uses the fact [23, 4.1] that the category of modules over a homotopy pullback ring is equivalent to the cellularization of the category of generalized diagrams over the individual modules, together with the fact that the localized sphere is the pullback.
From Equivalence 2 onwards, we introduce variants on the terms of the initial cube so as to keep track of the finite Weyl groups. The cospan of -spectra replaces terms of by coinductions which vary by subgroup. The new objects have the property that their -fixed point spectra are products of spectra with homology for relevant subgroups and the category of modules take values in the corresponding product of categories with -action. The cellularization will pick out the appropriate abelian category.
Equivalence 2 uses the results of [22]. To explain, for each subgroup we consider the normalizer , the Weyl group with identity component and discrete quotient . Finally, we write for the inverse image of in . With this notation, there are equivalences
where the first is the forgetful map and the second is passage to fixed ponts (an equivalence because lies over ) and the third is passage to -fixed points under (an equivalence by the Eilenberg-Moore theorem because is connected). It requires some care to assemble these equivalences when is infinite, and we will explain in Section 8.
Equivalence 3 follows from Shipleyโs Theorem [26], and is easily adapted to the type of diagram we have. Equivalence 4 is a formality statment. Finally, Equivalence 5 folows from the Cellular Skeleton Theorem, which will identify the cellularization of the algebraic category of modules with the derived category of an abelian category.
We will first expla The abelian models are Q models gen star in the argument for individual subgroups and then discuss how to assemble these for the whole category.
7. Modules over completions and completions of modules
In this section we consider the stalks over a single subgroup. We deal with two particular matters we address. The first is reflected in the title: the splicing data comes about because we have models for arbitrary modules over the completed rings, not just complete modules. The primitive example to bear in mind is that there many more modules over than there are complete modules (for example ) . Roughly speaking the complete modules are the ingredients but modules over the completed ring are used in the splicing. The second matter is that we clarify the necessary generators when the group is not connected in a way that will be important when we allow infinitely many subgroups.
7.A. Trivial coisotropy (connected)
Starting with the simplest case we consider a connected compact Lie group and focus on trivial isotropy or coisotropy. First of all, there is an equivalence
using the functors and . Similarly in algebra
using (derived) torsion and derived completion functors and . (A model for torsion -modules is given by DG modules in the abelian category of torsion modules. In the complete case, the category of -adically complete modules is not abelian, so one needs to use the abelian category of -complete modules [25].)
We have equivalences
We will focus on the right hand end (cofree spectra and complete modules).
One method of proving the vertical equivalences is to observe that is a non-equivariant equivalence, and hence
We may then prove is formal.
Proposition 7.1.
We have equivalences
Proof :โWriting , the first equivalence is in [22], using the fixed point functor and its left adjoint. This is an equivalence by the Cellularization Principle [20] provided -modules are generated by .
This is true when is connected (there are various proofs, but
one giving this generality is in [11]).
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Theorem 7.2.
If is connected, we have a commutative square
Proof :โIn summary, we have the equivalences
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7.B. Trivial coisotropy (disconnected)
We explain how to cover the case of disconnected groups.
Theorem 7.3.
For an arbitrary group we have a commutative square
Proof :โFrom the Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence -modules are
generated by -modules where is a finite subgroup of
. The map of -spectra is a non-equivariant
equivalence where is the idempotent supported at 1. Thus
is an equivalence. The result follows
from the fact that free -spectra are generated by .
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8. Treating infinitely many subgroups at once
In the previous section, we argued that is strongly isotropically formal in the sense that we could take fixed points for a single subgroup and obtain a formal ring spectrum. It is rather easy to adapt this to for any single subgroup , by the method of [12]. We recall this argument below, but the main point of the present section is to explain how to deal with infinite products of such spectra.
In the previous section we explained how to deal with a single subgroup, which we took to be the trivial group for convenience. The argument involved a subgroup and some associated subgroups. Principally this means its normalizer , and its Weyl group , but we also need to mention the identity component of , and its discrete quotient , and finally , which is the inverse image of in , so that .
The argument is that (for suitable ring spectra ) we have equivalences
Equivalence (1) is the forgetful map from -spectra to -spectra, and relies on fusion of -conjugacy classes being favourable.
Equivalence (2) is passage to -fixed points, and relies on having geometric isotropy consisting of subgroups containing . Equivalence (3) is passage to categorical fixed points, and uses the Eilenberg-Moore theorem for the connected group .
We now wish to treat many subgroups at once, but the intermediate categories and functors in the above argument involve and therefore depend on . We explain here that we may instead factorize the composite so that the dependency on occurs in the ring and whilst the categories and functors are independent of .
The subtlety is that both and play a role. In our examples but (consider insider (or even inside )). Thus we need to use . On the other hand, taking -fixed points loses the action of the . The solution is to reinsert the action of as an endomorphism of the functor .
Lemma 8.1.
The diagram
commutes where the top horizontal is . The composite is a right Quillen functor.
Proof :โThe commutativity is just the formula
All functors in the diagram are right adjoints.
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The maps in the diagram are equivalences under various circumstances.
Lemma 8.2.
(i) The restriction functor
is an equivalence if, for all a containment implies , so that is a singleton.
(ii) The map
is an equivalence if is -free.
(iii) The map
is an equivalence if every element of contains .
(iv) The map
is an equivalence if is -free and generates .
Proof :โPart (i) follows since is an equivalence for all -modules .
Part (ii) is the fact that free -spectra are generated by and hence by Morita theory equivalent to spectra with a -action.
Part (iii) is [22, Theorem 7.1].
Part (iv) follows from [21].
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9. The abelian models are Quillen models in dimension 1
In this section we prove a general theorem. Amongst the small cases covered are the following familiar examples
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, the circle group
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, toral subgroups
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, full subgroups
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, toral subgroups
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, full subgroups
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, toral subgroups
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, full subgroups
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of rank 2 and or and non-trivial.
We saw in Lemma 5.4 that is of finite injective dimension in these cases and hence admits the injective model structure with homology isomorphisms as weak equivalences.
Theorem 9.1.
Suppose is a compact Lie group and is obtained from a set of conjugacy classes of finite subgroups of by adjoining the conjugacy class of a subgroup with finite Weyl group. Then there is a Quillen equivalence
where
where the data is as in Section 4
Since we know how to deal with 0-dimensional summands, we suppose . The first step is to express the category as a pullback, which we do by giving a pullback square of ring spectra. We will then calculate the homotopy of the ring spectra, and their strong isotropic formality. Finally we will prove the algebraic category has the model as a cellular skeleton.
9.A. The pullback square
Broadly speaking there are two ways of presenting the argument. (1) Giving a pullback square of rings in -spectra and then localizing to give a pullback square in -spectra with geometric isotropy . (2) Constructing the local objects directly and showing they form a pullback square. We will adopt the first option, since we quickly get a pullback square and stay with familiar objects as long as possible. When the filtration is more complicated, one can imagine that (2) may be more attractive.
For our present case, the pullback square is extremely familiar: we begin with the homotopy Tate square
where is the family of all finite subgroups. This is a pullback square in -spectra, and hence also in the category of spectra over . Furthermore, the objects are all commutative rings.
In the present case it is very easy to find more economical representatives of the homotopy types in the category of spectra over .
Lemma 9.2.
In the category of -spectra over we have equivalences
(i) and
(ii)
Proof :โBy hypothesis, for a collection of finite subgroups, not usually a family.
Since, is the only infinite subgroup in , Part (i) is immediate.
By [5, Theorem 1.2], there is an equivalence
. The inclusion of
is a -equivalence.
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Remark 9.3.
Using the splitting cited in the lemma, there is an idempotent selfmap of , with . We then have .
The spectra and are usually not equivalent in spectra over , but we show their difference is entirely concentrated at .
Corollary 9.4.
The square
is a homotopy pullback in -spectra over .
Proof :โThis follows since the horizontal fibres of the original pullback are and
in the second, the fibre of the lower horizontal is .
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9.B. Coefficient rings
It remains to study the categories of modules over each of the terms. For this we adapt the work Sections 7 and 8. For individual subgroups we have already seen modules over in -spectra are equivalent to modules over , which is a non-equivariant spectrum with an action of .
For each we consider the -spectrum and then let . We have
and
Stripping away specifics, we will argue that -module -spectra are equivalent to modules over a commutative ring for a subgroup of in a category of representations of a finite group . There are steps in equivariant homotopy, leading from -modules in -spectra to -modules in spectra with an action of . Shipleyโs Theorem shows this is equivalent to modules over a DGA with homology , and this is shown to be formal.
From an expository point of view, the first thing to identify is the target ring , even though it doesnโt play a role in the argument until the end.
Lemma 9.5.
We have
Proof :โThe first part is straightforward from the isomorphisms
The second part is simple since has finite Weyl group
(otherwise, we would need to take careful account of the
fact the calculation is in the -local category).
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Lemma 9.6.
There is a multiplicatively closed set so that
To describe the localization we split the product up into three factors
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On the multiplicatively closed set is
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On , the multiplicatively closed set is .
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On , the multiplicatively closed set is .
Proof :โThe splitting and the part are clear.
We start with the part. Since supports are closed under cotoral specialization, any idempotent nonzero on will be nonzero on . Next we note that for any -closed subset of there is an idempotent with support because the latter is open and closed in . We may then observe
because for .
For the part we will show directly that the algebraic localization
is the isotropic localization. For this we need to show that is -equivariantly contractible for all and that has non-equivariantly contractible geometric -fixed points.
For the first statement, it suffices to say that for each there is an element so that is -equivariantly null. For this we choose for a representation of the torus . For the second statement, we may work -equivariantly, and we note that inverting commutes with restriction of subgroups. Thus we have a -equivariant equivalence and , which has not -fixed points as required.
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Remark 9.7.
In the part one might hope to make an argument using representation theory to give a model of of the form . This will often work, for example when . However if and , all representations of have fixed points under elements of order 2, so no such model exists.
Corollary 9.8.
(i) For any -module , the map
induces inversion of , so that
(ii) The map induces extension of scalars along so that
Proof :โ(i) We note that for these spectra, and then the models of given in the lemma give the result.
(ii) The map induces a map
which
extends to a natural transformation. Since is flat it
is a natural transformation of homology theories compatible with the
action of . In checking it is an isomorphism we may ignore
the action of . The result therefore follows from the case
when is an -equivariant sphere.
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9.C. Uniformization and formality
There are two convenient facts about module categories that we now need to exploit. Firstly, for a finite group , the category of -modules is equivalent to the category of -modules with a -action: (requires to be finite). Secondly, the category of modules over a product is equivalent to the product of the module categories: (requires that this is a finite product).
By tom Dieckโs finiteness theorem [27], takes only finitely many values, so there is a partition of into finitely many pieces, each of which has a single value of . For brevity we write
Lemma 9.9.
With , there is an equivalence
Proof :โUsing Lemma 8.1, we have a right Quillen functor
which is an equivalence on each individual factor.
Breaking the product up into finitely many parts we may assume that there is a single finite group associated to each factor , so that each factor is generated by corresponding to . The product on the right is generated by .
Equivalences of cells are detected on the factors, so that the unit
and counit are equivalences on generators. Hence by the Cellularization Principle [20], it is an equivalence as required.
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Corollary 9.10.
(i) The category of -module is equivalent to the category of DG -equivariant objects in -modules.
(ii) The category of -module is equivalent to the category of DG -equivariant -modules.
Proof :โCase (ii) is straightforward.
In Case (i) we have a Quillen pair showing that -module are equivalent to -module -spectra by Lemma 9.9. By Shipleyโs Theorem this is equivalent to DG modules in -spectra over a DGA with homology by Lemma 9.5.
To see that the DGA is formal, we argue as follows. For a single
factor we have a CDGA with homology . Thus
is isomorphic
to , which is the symmetic algebra on a finite
dimensional vector space with an action of
. By Maschkeโs Theorem we may find a
submodule of mapping to , and thus we may choose an
equivariant homology isomorphism . This
covers the generic point . For , we then use the equivalence
followed by the above maps on each
factor.
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We need to show that the objectwise equivalences may be assembled to an equivalence of cospans.
Lemma 9.11.
The diagram of -spectra is intrinsically formal.
Proof :โThe proof is essentially the same as for the circle. Let us suppose we have a cospan with homology .
Starting at , we know is isomorphic to , which is the symmetic algebra on a finite dimensional vector space with an action of . By Maschkeโs Theorem we may find a submodule of mapping to , and thus we may choose an equivariant homology ismorphism .
This gives an equivalence
and we may suppose is standard. Now proceed as in the diagram below.
The original diagram has homology . In the following diagram, all horizontals are homology isomorphisms. Most maps are self explanatory, but we note that inverting additional classes already inverted in homology induces a weak equivalence. We therefore choose by adding representative cycles to so the the relevant DGA receives a map.
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9.D. The cellular skeleton theorem
We have shown that the category of -spectra over has a purely algebraic model, which is the cellularization of a category of modules. The cellularization means that the weak equivalences are not obvious. We complete the picture by showing that this algebraic cellularization is equivalent to DG objects in the abelian category with the weak equivalences being homology isomorphisms.
More precisely, is a coreflective subcategory of the category of modules with cellular equivalences of DG objects being homology isomorphisms, and the inclusion of abelian categories induces a Quillen equivalence.
Lemma 9.12.
The cellularization of the category of -modules has as a cellular skeleton.
Proof :โFirst we note that the images of any -spectrum lie in . This is because the homotopy of the horizontal map is inverting the multiplicatively closed set by Corollary 9.8 (i), and the vertical map is extension of scalars along a flat map by Corollary 9.8 (ii). In particular, the cells are in .
To see that any object of is cellular, we use the injective resolutions from Subsection 5.E. The point is that any object of admits an embedding into an injective which is a sum of injectives and , whose cokernel is a sum of injectives of the second type. Each of these injectives are cellular because they are the images of -spectra. Indeed is the image of , and is the image of .
Finally, we argue that any object in the module category is cellularly equivalent to a an object of . Suppose then that is an object of the module category. The functor is a right adjoint to evaluation so there is a map with fibre . Since is a wedge of copies of it is cellular, so it suffices to show is cellularly equivalent to an object of . Inverting gives a map . The fibre is with being -torsion and hence cellular. It remains to observe is cellularly trivial, since then we have and a cofibre sequence
To show cellular triviality of we check maps out of cells. There are no maps from for because is torsion free. Finally maps from are calculated from the pullback square
which in our case is
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10. Towards the general 1-dimensional case
We consider the restrictions currently imposed, and how they might be avoided.
- drop the restriction that is of finite index in its normalizer:
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The first issue is that needs to be replaced by a different ring spectrum. If is normal in this means . Probably in general it should be the -localization of the -completion of the sphere. Adapting the proof of the pullback square should be a straightforward. Under appropriate group theoretic conditions there is a more explicit model of the ring -spectrum, and this will enable calculations of homotopy groups to link to algebra.
The effect on the algebraic model is that will be a more general polynomial ring, so the models will be of higher homological dimension. One also needs to discuss the relationships between normalizers of and subgroups in . If contains all subgroups it is straightforward, but this should be weakened, so that it covers cases like in .
- drop the restriction that the subgroups in are finite:
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Our proof of the formality of involves a certain uniformity of behaviour. It should be sufficient that all elements of have a common identity component. Since we may always use idempotents, it should suffice that can be broken into finitely many parts each of which consists of subgroups with a common identity component.
- drop the restriction that has a single compactifying point:
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The general case that is a 1-dimensional spectral space introduces significant complication. For example, even with only finitely many height 1 subgroups the model needs to incorporate the combinatorics of specialization and how it interacts with the containments of normalizers.
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