functoriality of the Burnside ring
We wish to show how the Burnside ring can be turned into a contravariant functor![]()
from the category
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of finite groups
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into the category of commutative
, unital rings.
Let and be finite groups. We already know how acts on objects of the category of finite groups. Assume that is a group homomorphism![]()
. Furthermore let be a -set. Then can be naturally equiped with a -set structure
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via function:
The set equiped with this group action![]()
will be denoted by .
Therefore a group homomorphism induces a ring homomorphism![]()
such that
One can easily check that this turns into a contravariant functor.