Split maps on circle tensors #
The Frobenius pairing on a circle pairs 1 with X and X with 1. On a finite set
of circles it therefore pairs a labelling with its pointwise complement. We construct this
perfect pairing using Module.Basis.equiv and Module.Basis.dualBasis, and define the split
map along a map of circle sets as the adjoint of PiTensorProduct.fiberwiseMul. The pairing is
symmetric, and since complementary labellings have opposite quantum degrees it restricts to a
perfect pairing between the quantum pieces of degrees p and -p
(TauCeti.Khovanov.circlePieceDuality).
This construction retains all unaffected circles and makes no choice of circle order. Its coefficient formula is the transpose of the merge formula with both labellings complemented. Composition is contravariant: successive splittings correspond to composition of the maps collapsing the output circles. Empty fibres give deaths, dual to the births of the merge map.
The pairing is the Frobenius form of the algebra ⨂ R[ε]: it reads the X ⊗ ⋯ ⊗ X coordinate of
the product. Consequently the split map along f satisfies the projection formula
Δ_f (m_f x * z) = x * Δ_f z, the Frobenius identity Δ(a b) = (a ⊗ 1) Δ(b) for fibres. This
reduces composites of merges and splits to multiplication by merged splits of the unit; in
particular, merging and splitting around a commuting square of circle correspondences agree when
those splits of the unit agree. It also shows that splitting carries X on a circle to X on
any one of its output circles.
References #
- M. Khovanov, A categorification of the Jones polynomial, Duke Math. J. 101 (2000), §2.
- D. Bar-Natan, On Khovanov's categorification of the Jones polynomial, Algebr. Geom. Topol. 2 (2002), §2.
The perfect Frobenius pairing of a finite circle tensor: complementary labellings are paired with coefficient one and all other pairs with coefficient zero.
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Pairing a tensor with a basis labelling reads its complementary coordinate.
On the labelling basis, the circle pairing is the tensor product of the original
Frobenius forms (a, b) ↦ counit (a * b).
The circle pairing is the Frobenius form of the algebra ⨂ R[ε]: it pairs x and y by
reading the coordinate of x * y along the labelling with X on every circle. This is the
tensor product of the original counits.
The circle pairing is symmetric, since it is the Frobenius form of a commutative algebra.
The split map along f, adjoint to multiplication along its fibres. It maps the tensor
on τ to the tensor on σ; a two-element fibre splits that circle.
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The split map is characterized by adjunction for the Frobenius pairing.
The l-coordinate of the split of x is the pairing of x with the merge of the basis
tensor labelled by the pointwise complement of l.
The coefficient formula for arbitrary splittings and deaths. At most one output in each
fibre may carry 1; a fibre carrying only X requires an input X, and a fibre carrying one
1 requires an input 1. An empty fibre also requires an input X.
The identity correspondence gives the identity split map.
Splitting successively is splitting along the composite circle correspondence.
Along a bijection the split map is inverse reindexing, so relabelling circles introduces neither a scalar nor a sign.
The split map is natural in the index map: reindexing along bijections of the source and
target carries the split along f to the split along f' when the square eτ ∘ f = f' ∘ eσ
commutes.
The projection formula. The split map along f : σ → τ is linear over the algebra of
the circles σ, which acts on the tensor over τ through multiplication along f. For a single
splitting this is the Frobenius identity Δ(a b) = (a ⊗ 1) Δ(b).
Splitting along f carries X on the circle f i to X on the circle i. By the
projection formula, X on a split circle may be applied on either output circle.
Splitting along a surjection is multiplication by the split of 1. By the projection
formula, splitting x along a surjection f multiplies the split of 1 by x, transported to the
split circles by merging along a section of f.
Splitting and then merging along a factorization. Split along a surjection f and then
merge along g = h ∘ f, which merges every circle split off by f back together. The result is
multiplication by the merge of the split of 1, after merging along h.
The Frobenius relation for a commuting square of circle correspondences. Let
f ∘ f' = g ∘ g', with f' surjective, and suppose that splitting 1 along f' and merging
along g' gives the split of 1 along g. Then merging along f and splitting along g is
splitting along f' and merging along g'.
Merging and then splitting through a set of circles depends on that set only up to a bijection compatible with both correspondences.
Splitting 1 into two circles gives 1 ⊗ X + X ⊗ 1; splitting X gives X ⊗ X.
The two output circles are indexed by Bool, and the input by Unit.
Splitting along a surjection whose only non-singleton fibre is {p, q} obeys
Δ X = X ⊗ X and Δ 1 = X ⊗ 1 + 1 ⊗ X on the circles p and q; every other circle retains
the label of its image.
Splitting along f : σ → τ has quantum degree |τ| - |σ|. Thus an elementary split has
degree -1, and deleting a circle by the counit has degree +1.
The Frobenius pairing restricts to a perfect pairing between the quantum pieces of
degrees p and -p of a circle tensor: complementary labellings have opposite degrees, so the
basis of the degree-p piece is carried to the dual basis of the degree--p piece
(TauCeti.Khovanov.circlePieceDuality_apply).
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The pairing of the quantum pieces of degrees p and -p is the Frobenius pairing of the
whole circle tensor.