On the tails of FI-modules

Abstract

We study the end-behavior of integer-valued FI-modules. Our first result describes the high degrees of an FI-module in terms of newly defined tail invariants. Our main result provides an equivalence of categories between FI-tails and finitely supported modules for a new category that we call FJ. Objects of FJ are natural numbers, and morphisms are infinite series with summands drawn from certain modules of Lie brackets.