A spectral sequence for homotopy groups of equivariant mapping spaces (Q1281112)

The authors construct a spectral sequence of Bousfield-Kan type, which converges to the graded homotopy group \(\pi_* \text{map}^G_{pt}(X,Y)\) of the space of equivariant pointed continuous mappings of a \(G\)-CW-complex \(X\) into a \(G\)-CW-complex \(Y\), where \(G\) is a discrete group, the action of \(G\) on \(X\) is free, and \(Y\) has only finitely many non-zero homotopy groups. As an example, they compute \(\pi_* \text{map}^G_{pt}(X,Y)\) for \(X\) the universal covering space of the classifying space \(BG\) and \(Y\) an Eilenberg-MacLane space \(K(M,n)\), where \(M\) is a \({\mathbb Z}[G]\)-module and \(n > 1\).