I’ve been thinking about polynomial functors for a few years now, and at the beginning of that time I was also thinking about Dirichlet polynomials. The category has objects as on the left, and the category
has objects as on the right:
I wrote a couple of short notes with David Jaz Myers about these things, e.g. that the category of Dirichlet polynomials forms a topos. Indeed, it is equivalent to the topos of functions
. That is, both
and
have interpretations as categories of bundles in
, but with different sorts of maps:
maps are forwards on base and forwards on fibers, whereas
maps are forwards on base and backwards on fibers. I’ll explain this more in the next section.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://topos.site/blog/2023-07-21-nuclear-adjunction-poly-dir/