Perfect trace pairings between signed graded corners #
Multiplication followed by the canonical componentwise trace pairs the degree d part of
e_i Z e_j perfectly with the degree 2 - d part of e_j Z e_i. This holds over a commutative
ring, for every finite simple graph, including its isolated dual-number components.
The existing signed-corner spans reduce the pairing to dual vertex/volume or reverse-arrow
basis vectors, or to two zero modules. The existing componentwise trace Gram formula supplies
the coefficient one in each nonzero case; no scalar inversion or dimension argument is needed.
The induced equivalence with the dual is Mathlib's LinearMap.toPerfPair.
Main declarations #
TauCeti.zigzagAlgebraGradedCornerTracePairing: the actual multiplication--trace restriction.TauCeti.zigzagAlgebraGradedCornerTracePairing_isPerfPair: perfectness in both arguments.
This is an internal graded pairing. It does not identify internal degree with cohomological degree or assert Serre duality or cohomological sphericity of a projective module.
References #
The corner spans and trace Gram formula are those already formalized in
TauCeti.RepresentationTheory.Quiver.Zigzag.Componentwise.Corner.Grading and
TauCeti.RepresentationTheory.Quiver.Zigzag.Componentwise.Trace. The grading and trace
conventions follow Huerfano--Khovanov, A category for the adjoint representation, Section 3,
and Ehrig--Tubbenhauer, Algebraic properties of zigzag algebras, Section 2.
Multiplication and the componentwise trace pair opposite corners in complementary signed internal degrees.
Instances For
The restricted pairing evaluates to the trace of the actual product in the public algebra.
Opposite signed graded corners of the public componentwise zigzag algebra are in perfect trace pairing over any commutative coefficient ring, including at isolated vertices.