Motivic Zeta Functions of Motives

LetM be a tensor category with coefficients in a fieldK of characteristic 0, that is, a K-linear pseudo-abelian symmetric monoidal category such that the tensor product ⊗ of M is bilinear. Then symmetric and exterior powers of an object M ∈ M make sense, by using appropriate projectors relative to the action of the symmetric groups on tensor powers of M . One may therefore introduce the zeta function of M , a power series with coefficients in K0(M) [1, §13.3.2]: