Goodwillie calculus via adjunction and LS cocategory

DOI10.4310/HHA.2016.V18.N2.A2zbMATH Open1360.55013arXiv1209.2384OpenAlexW1933479942MaRDI QIDQ505342FDOQ505342

Authors: Rosona Eldred 

Publication date: 20 January 2017

Published in: Homology, Homotopy and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we show that for reduced homotopy endofunctors of spaces, F, and for all $ngeq1$ there are adjoint functors $R_n,L_n$ with $T_{n}Fsimeq{R}_{n}F{L}_n$, where $P_{n}F$ is the $n$-excisive approximation to $F$, constructed by taking the homotopy colimit over iterations of $T_{n}F$. This then endows $T_n$ of the identity with the structure of a monad and the $T_{n}F$'s are the functor version of bimodules over that monad. It follows that each $T_{n}F$ (and $P_{n}F$) takes values in spaces of symmetric Lusternik-Schnirelman cocategory $n$, as defined by Hopkins. This also recovers recent results of Chorny-Scherer. The spaces $T_{n}F(X)$ are in fact classically nilpotent (in the sense of Berstein-Ganea) but not nilpotent in the sense of Biedermann and Dwyer. We extend the original constructions of dual calculus to our setting, establishing the $n$-co-excisive approximation for a functor, and dualize our constructions to obtain analogous results concerning constructions $T^n$, $P^n$,and LS category.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2384

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zbMATH Keywords

Goodwillie calculusnilpotencehomotopy limitLS categoryLS cocategory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(H)-spaces and duals (55P45) Homotopy theory (55P99) Whitehead products and generalizations (55Q15) Duality in applied homological algebra and category theory (aspects of algebraic topology) (55U30)

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