English

Comparing the orthogonal and homotopy functor calculi

Algebraic Topology 2015-05-21 v1

Abstract

Goodwillie's homotopy functor calculus constructs a Taylor tower of approximations to F, often a functor from spaces to spaces. Weiss's orthogonal calculus provides a Taylor tower for functors from vector spaces to spaces. In particular, there is a Weiss tower associated to the functor which sends a vector space V to F evaluated at the one-point compactification of V. In this paper, we give a comparison of these two towers and show that when F is analytic the towers agree up to weak equivalence. We include two main applications, one of which gives as a corollary the convergence of the Weiss Taylor tower of BO. We also lift the homotopy level tower comparison to a commutative diagram of Quillen functors, relating model categories for Goodwillie calculus and model categories for the orthogonal calculus.

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@article{arxiv.1505.05458,
  title  = {Comparing the orthogonal and homotopy functor calculi},
  author = {David Barnes and Rosona Eldred},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.05458},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

28 pages, sequel to Capturing Goodwillie's Derivative, arXiv:1406.0424