Modules of topological spaces, applications to homotopy limits and \(E_ \infty\) structures (Q1203545)

The idea of this paper is to apply homological methods to diagrams of topological spaces. The authors use the term \(\mathcal C\)-module for a diagram indexed by a category \(\mathcal C\). They define tensor products, hom- factors and bar constructions, and show that they have many of the usual properties. As a more or less immediate consequence, they derive much of the theory of homotopy limits and colimits. They also give non- computational proofs of some results in infinite loop space theory.