Maximal compatibility of disklike $G$-transfer systems

TL;DR

This paper provides explicit formulas for the maximal compatible transfer systems in equivariant homotopy theory, especially simplifying for disklike systems, and explores their functorial properties under group quotients.

Contribution

It introduces explicit formulas for maximal compatible transfer systems and demonstrates their functoriality under inflation maps, advancing understanding of equivariant structures.

Findings

Explicit formulas for maximal transfer systems are derived.

Compatibility simplifies for disklike transfer systems.

Maximal compatibility is functorial under group inflation maps.

Abstract

Transfer systems are a combinatorial model for $N_{\infty}$-operads, which encode commutative structures in equivariant homotopy theory. Blumberg--Hill and Chan gave criteria for when two transfer systems are a compatible pair, meaning they encode the additive transfers and multiplicative norms of a ring-type structure. In this paper, given a transfer system encoding an additive structure, we give explicit formulae for the maximal transfer system it is compatible with. Our formulae simplify for disklike transfer systems, which typically encode additive structures. Further, we prove that (maximal) compatibility is functorial with respect to the inflation map induced by a quotient of groups, letting us compute maximal compatible transfer systems as inflations of connected transfer systems.