For quite a while, I have been wondering if there is a general principle/theory that has
both Tannaka fundamental groups and étale fundamental groups as a special case.
To elaborate: The theory of the étale fundamental group (more generally of
Grothendieck's Galois categories from SGA1, or similarly of the fundamental group of a
topos) works like this: Take a set valued functor from the category of finite étale
coverings of a scheme satisfying certain axioms, let $pi_1$ be its automorphism group and
you will get an equivalence of categories ( (pro-)finite étale coverings) <-> ( (pro-)finite cont.
$pi_1$-sets).
The Tannaka formalism goes like this: Take a $k$-linear abelian tensor category $mathbb{T}$ satisfying certain axioms (e.g. the category of finite dim. $k$-representations of an abstract group), and a $k$-Vector space
valued tensor functor $F$ (the category with this functor is then called neutral Tannakian), and let $Aut$ be its tensor-automorphism functor, that is the functor that assigns to a $k$-algebra $R$ the set of $R$-linear tensor-automorphisms $F(-)otimes R$. This will of
course be a group-valued functor, and the theory says it's representable by a group scheme $Pi_1$,
such that there is a tensor equivalence of categories $Rep_k(Pi_1)cong mathbb{T}$.
Both theories "describe" under which conditions a given category is the (tensor) category of
representations of a group scheme (considering $pi_1$-sets as "representations on sets" and $pi_1$ as constant group scheme). Hence
the question:
Are both theories special cases of some general concept? (Maybe, inspired by
recent questions, the first theory can be thought of as "Tannaka formalism for
$k=mathbb{F}_1$"? :-))
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