Homotopy linear algebra

Abstract

By homotopy linear algebra we mean the study of linear functors between slices of the $\infty$-category of $\infty$-groupoids, subject to certain finiteness conditions. After some standard definitions and results, we assemble said slices into $\infty$-categories to model the duality between vector spaces and profinite-dimensional vector spaces, and set up a global notion of homotopy cardinality \`a la Baez-Hoffnung-Walker compatible with this duality. We needed these results to support our work on incidence algebras and M\"obius inversion over $\infty$-groupoids; we hope that they can also be of independent interest.