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In Goodwillie calculus, unpublished work of Dwyer and Rezk provides a classification of reduced filtered colimit preserving -excisive functors from pointed spaces to spectra as spectrum-valued functors on the category of finite sets of cardinality at most and epimorphisms. We prove through different methods the analogous result in Weiss calculus: -polynomial functors are equivalent to spectrum-valued functors on the category of finite-dimensional inner product spaces of dimension at most and orthogonal epimorphisms. Via similar methods we obtain a new proof of the classification of homogeneous functors.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
14 pages. v1: Comments welcome! v2: Accepted version