posted on 2008-09-22, 15:54authored byHans-Joachim Baues, Winfried Dreckmann, Vincent Franjou, Teimuraz Pirashvili
Polynomial functors from free abelian groups to abelian groups are described explicitly in the form of diagrams of abelian groups, that are maps between the crosseffects of the polynomial functor which satisfy a list of relations. The key is to use an appropriate notion of Mackey functor from the category of finite sets and surjections.
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Bulletin de La Société Mathématique de France, 2001, 129 (2), pp. 237-257.