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In the context of quadratic/Hermitian forms and in particular of Hermitian K-theory, by the hyperbolic functor one refers to the construction which sends a module over a given (star-)ground ring to its direct sum
with its (anti-)linear dual and then equipped with the (sesqui- or) bilinear form
which on the mixed summands is (the conjugation of) the evaluation map
and vanishing on the homogeneous summands.
This construction extends to functor from the core groupoid of -modules to that of inner product spaces with isometries between them, by sending an isomorphism to its direct sum with the dual linear map of its inverse:
Regarded with suitable -equivariance, the hyperbolic functor establishes an equivalence between KR-theory and topological Hermitian K-theory (see the references there).
In the simple special case that the ground ring is the real numbers and is also , regared as the 1-dimensional vector space over itself, and finally identifying , canonically, the hyperbolic construction on is the plane equipped with its standard Minkowski metric.
Here the subspaces of fixed non-vanishing norm are the usual hyperbolas. This gives the name “hyperbolic form” to all modules of the above form .
The term “hyperbolic functor” seems to originate with:
See also:
Further discussion in the context of Hermitian K-theory:
Max Karoubi, Orlando Villamayor, p. 60 of K-théorie algébrique et K-théorie topologique II, Math. Scand. 32 (1973) 57-86 [jstor:24490565]
Max Karoubi, pp. 307 (7 of 111) in: Périodicité de la K-théorie hermitienne, in: Hyman Bass (ed.), Algebraic K-Theory III – Hermitian K-Theory and Geometric Applications, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 343 (1973) 301-411 [doi:10.1007/BFb0061366]
Anthony Bak, §3 in: Grothendieck Groups of Modules and Forms Over Commutative Orders, American Journal of Mathematics, 99 1 (1977) 107-120 [jstor:2374010, doi:10.2307/2374010]
Max Karoubi, §1.10 in: Le théorème de périodicité en K-théorie hermitienne, in Quanta of Maths, Clay Mathematics Proceesings 11, AMS and Clay Math Institute Publications (2010) 257-282 [arXiv:0810.4707, pdf]
See also:
Richard Elman, Nikita Karpenko, Alexander Merkurjev, p. 4 of: Algebraic and Geometric Theory of Quadratic Forms, Colloquium Publication 56, AMS (2008) [ams:coll-56, pdf]
Matthew B. Young, p. 15 of: Self-Dual Hall modules, PhD thesis, Stony Brook (2013) [pdf, pdf]
Marco Schlichting, p. 8 of: Higher -Theory of Forms I. From Rings to Exact Categories, Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu 20 4 (2021) 1205-1273 [doi:10.1017/S1474748019000410]
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