The Witt vectors for Green functors

Abstract

We define twisted Hochschild homology for Green functors. This construction is the algebraic analogue of the relative topological Hochschild homology $TH{H}_{C_n}(-)$, and it describes the $E_2$ term of the Künneth spectral sequence for relative $THH$. Applied to ordinary rings, we obtain new algebraic invariants. Extending Hesselholt's construction of the Witt vectors of noncommutative rings, we interpret our construction as providing Witt vectors for Green functors.

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