Translation of arrow multiplicities in a finite tau-category #
Compatibility of the chosen left and right meshes identifies the middle term
of the left mesh at a noninjective label X with the middle term of the right
mesh ending at tauMinus X. Comparing the resulting left-mesh unit equation
with the corresponding row of the inverse Hom matrix proves the usual
translation identity for the official arrow multiplicities:
a(X,Y) = a(Y,tauMinus X).
The categorical left-mesh defect at a noninjective label, expressed using the right-mesh decomposition at its negative translate.
The mesh contribution in the row of a noninjective label is the single unit contribution ending at its negative translate.
An injective label cannot occur as the translated source of a right mesh, so its row has no mesh contribution.
A noninjective row of the mesh matrix is identity minus outgoing arrows plus the unit entry at the negative translate.
An injective row of the mesh matrix is identity minus its outgoing arrow row, with no translation contribution.
Every represented Hom column gives the same weighted sum for arrows out
of X and arrows into its negative translate.
Arrow multiplicity is preserved by translation across a mesh:
a(X,Y) = a(Y,tauMinus X) for every noninjective X.