category with duals (list of them)
dualizable object (what they have)
ribbon category, a.k.a. tortile category
monoidal dagger-category?
abstract duality: opposite category,
concrete duality: dual object, dualizable object, fully dualizable object, dualizing object
between higher geometry/higher algebra
Langlands duality, geometric Langlands duality, quantum geometric Langlands duality
The stable homotopy category is a symmetric monoidal category via the symmetric smash product of spectra. Monoidal duality in is called Spanier-Whitehead duality or S-duality .
The explicit interpretation in terms of monoidal duality is (DoldPuppe, theorem 3.1).
Using this one shows that the trace on the identity on – its categorical dimension – is the Euler characteristic of .
The original references are
Edwin Spanier, ; Henry Whitehead, (1953), A first approximation to homotopy theory, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 39: 655–660, MR0056290
Edwin Spanier, ; Henry Whitehead, (1955), Duality in homotopy theory , Mathematika 2: 56–80, MR0074823
The interpretation of the duality as ordinary monoidal duality in the stable homotopy category is apparently due to
An English version of that paper is:
Atiyah duality is due to
Lecture notes include
Frank Adams, part III, section 5 of Stable homotopy and generalised homology, 1974
Michael Hopkins (notes by Akhil Mathew), Lecture 22 in: Spectra and stable homotopy theory, 2012 (pdf, pdf)
Further discussion of Atiyah duals is in
For equivariant stable homotopy theory Spanier-Whitehead duality is discussed on pages 23 onwards of
The Spanier-Whitehead duality has been studied in the new category of cospectra with ideas close to the later ones of shape theory in
See also
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