The definition of THH for Waldhausen categories

Let C\mathcal{C} be a Waldhausen category, and let End(C)\operatorname{End}(\mathcal{C}) be its category of endomorphisms. Let K~(End(C))\widetilde{K}(\operatorname{End}(\mathcal{C})) be the reduced algebraic KK-theory spectrum, with Verschiebung filtration ViV^{\geq i}. The Waldhausen-category THH proposal. The definition of topological Hochschild homology of C\mathcal{C} should be

THH(C):=K~(End(C))/V2.\operatorname{THH}(\mathcal{C}):=\widetilde{K}(\operatorname{End}(\mathcal{C}))/V^{\geq 2}.

This is proposed because general Waldhausen categories lack a canonical definition of topological Hochschild homology, whereas the Verschiebung construction on their endomorphism categories is available; the source presents it as a proposal rather than an established definition.

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Jonathan A. Campbell, “Facets of the Witt Vectors”, arXiv:1910.10206 (2019).

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