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A Dwyer-Rezk classification for polynomial functors in Weiss calculus

Algebraic Topology 2025-11-27 v2

Abstract

In Goodwillie calculus, unpublished work of Dwyer and Rezk provides a classification of reduced filtered colimit preserving dd-excisive functors from pointed spaces to spectra as spectrum-valued functors on the category of finite sets of cardinality at most dd and epimorphisms. We prove through different methods the analogous result in Weiss calculus: dd-polynomial functors are equivalent to spectrum-valued functors on the category of finite-dimensional inner product spaces of dimension at most dd and orthogonal epimorphisms. Via similar methods we obtain a new proof of the classification of homogeneous functors.

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@article{arxiv.2508.03808,
  title  = {A Dwyer-Rezk classification for polynomial functors in Weiss calculus},
  author = {David Barnes and Magdalena Kędziorek and Niall Taggart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.03808},
  year   = {2025}
}

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14 pages. v1: Comments welcome! v2: Accepted version

R2 v1 2026-07-01T04:35:54.382Z