Faa di Bruno for operads and internal algebras

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For any coloured operad R, we prove a Faa di Bruno formula for the 'connected Green function' in the incidence bialgebra of R. This generalises on one hand the classical Faa di Bruno formula (dual to composition of power series), corresponding to the case where R is the terminal reduced operad, and on the other hand the Faa di Bruno formula for P-trees of Galvez-Kock-Tonks (P a finitary polynomial endofunctor), which corresponds to the case where R is the free operad on P. Following Galvez-Kock-Tonks, we work at the objective level of groupoid slices, hence all proofs are 'bijective': the formula is established as the homotopy cardinality of an explicit equivalence of groupoids, in turn derived from a certain two-sided bar construction. In fact we establish the formula more generally in a relative situation, for algebras of one polynomial monad internal to another. This covers in particular nonsymmetric operads (for which the terminal reduced case yields the noncommutative Faa di Bruno formula of Brouder-Frabetti-Krattenthaler).

Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of the London Mathematical Society
Volume99
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)919-944
Number of pages26
ISSN0024-6107
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2019
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • QUANTUM-FIELD THEORY, HOPF ALGEBRA, POLYNOMIAL FUNCTORS, RENORMALIZATION, BIALGEBRAS, PARTITIONS, CATEGORIES, FORMULA, GRAPHS, TREES

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