Generalized Burnside-Grothendieck ring functor and aperiodic ring functor associated with profinite groups

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For every profinite group G, we construct two covariant functors Delta(G) and AP(G) which are equivalent to the functor W-G introduced in [A. Dress, C. Siebeneicher, The Burnside ring of profinite groups and the Witt vectors construction, Adv. Math. 70 (1988) 87-132]. We call Delta(G) the generalized Burnside-Grothendieck ring functor and AP(G) the aperiodic ring functor (associated with G). In case G is abelian, we also construct another functor AP(G) from the category of commutative rings with identity to itself as a generalization of the functor Ap introduced in [K. Varadarajan, K. Wehrhahn, Aperiodic rings, necklace rings, and Witt vectors, Adv. Math. 81 (1990) 1-29]. Finally, it is shown that there exist q-analogues of these functors (i.e., WG, Delta(G), AP(G), and Ap(G)) in case G is the profinite completion of the multiplicative infinite cyclic group (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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