nLab Tate diagonal

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While the symmetric monoidal (∞,1)-category of spectra is not a cartesian monoidal (∞,1)-category, hence while the smash product of spectra does not admit diagonal morphisms, it turns out that for each prime number $p$ there is a analogue of the diagonal into the $p$ -fold smash product. This is the Tate diagonal (def. ). One way that this really does behave like a diagonal map is the construction of the Frobenius morphism on E-∞ rings (see this def. and this example)

For $n \in \mathbb{N}$ a natural number, write $C_p \coloneqq \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$ for the cyclic group of order $n$ .

For $X \in Spectra$ a spectrum and $n$ a natural number, consider the Tate spectrum

(X \wedge \cdots \wedge X)^{t C_n} \in Spectra

where the $n$ -fold smash product of spectra is regarded as equipped with the ∞-action by the cyclic group given by cyclic permutation of smash factors. This construction canonically extends to an (∞,1)-functor

T_n \;\colon\; Spectra \longrightarrow Spectra

id_{spectra} \longrightarrow T_p

from the identity functor on the (∞,1)-category of spectra to the (∞,1)-functor $T_p$ from def. is equivalent to the underlying space of $T_p$ applied to the sphere spectrum:

Hom( id_{Specta}, T_p ) \;\simeq\; \Omega^\infty T_p(\mathbb{S}) \simeq Hom_{Specta}(\mathbb{S}, T_p(\mathbb{S})) \,.

For $p$ a prime number, the Tate diagonal is the natural transformation

\array{ id_{Specta} &\overset{\Delta_p}{\longrightarrow}& T_p \\ X &\mapsto& (X \wedge \cdots X)^{t C_p} }

is the one which under the equivalence of prop. corresponds to the composite morphism

\mathbb{S} \overset{}{\longrightarrow} \mathbb{S}^{C_p} \overset{}{\longrightarrow} \mathbb{S}^{t C_p}

where the first is the unit map into the homotopy fixed point spectrum, and the second is the defining one of the Tate spectrum.

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