Goodwillie calculus and Whitehead products

DOI10.1515/FORUM-2012-0038zbMATH Open1311.55019arXiv1109.2691OpenAlexW2157643176MaRDI QIDQ487119FDOQ487119

Authors: Boris Chorny, Jérôme Scherer 

Publication date: 19 January 2015

Published in: Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that iterated Whitehead products of length (n+1) vanish in any value of an n-excisive functor in the sense of Goodwillie. We compare then different notions of homotopy nilpotency, from the Berstein-Ganea definition to the Biedermann-Dwyer one. The latter is strongly related to Goodwillie calculus and we analyze the vanishing of iterated Whitehead products in such objects.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2691

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zbMATH Keywords

Goodwillie calculusnilpotentalgebraic theoryexcisive functorhomotopy nilpotent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theories (e.g., algebraic theories), structure, and semantics (18C10) Homotopy functors in algebraic topology (55P65) Infinite loop spaces (55P47) Whitehead products and generalizations (55Q15)

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