Model categories for orthogonal calculus

\(n\)-homogeneous functor \(n\)-polynomial functor \(n\)-stable model structure group action homogeneous model structure model category orthogonal calculus polynomial model structure

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Stable homotopy theory, spectra (55P42) Equivariant homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55P91) Abstract and axiomatic homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55U35)

Abstract: We restate the notion of orthogonal calculus in terms of model categories. This provides a cleaner set of results and makes the role of O(n)-equivariance clearer. Thus we develop model structures for the category of n-polynomial and n-homogeneous functors, along with Quillen pairs relating them. We then classify n-homogeneous functors, via a zig-zag of Quillen equivalences, in terms of spectra with an O(n)-action. This improves upon the classification of Weiss. As an application, we develop a variant of orthogonal calculus by replacing topological spaces with orthogonal spectra.

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Orthogonal calculus is a technique, similar to Goodwillie's calculus, that captures homotopical properties of functors that take finite dimensional real vector spaces with inner product to pointed topological spaces. In this paper the authors put the study of orthogonal calculus into the powerful language of model categories. Concretely, they develop polynomial and homogeneous model structures (i.e. model structures for the categories of \(n\)-polynomial and \(n\)-homogeneous functors) and realise the constructions of \textit{M. Weiss} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 347, No. 10, 3743--3796 (1995); erratum ibid. 359, No. 2, 851--855 (1998; Zbl 0866.55020)] as Quillen functors on model categories. As an application of this new general interesting perspective they establish a stable variant of orthogonal calculus, replacing pointed topological spaces with orthogonal spectra.

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