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Lie structures in homotopy and isotopy calculi

Algebraic Topology 2025-05-05 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We establish compatibility of Lie structures that appear in homotopy calculus of functors and isotopy calculus of embeddings. On one hand, we give a new proof of the Johnson--Arone--Mahowald result describing the layers of the Goodwillie tower of the identity functor, and we directly compare the spectral Lie bracket with the classical Whitehead bracket on spaces. On the other hand, we geometrically define a bracket on the layers of the embedding calculus tower for embeddings of arcs. These results are unified through the same technical tool, a newly defined bracket on total homotopy fibres of collapsing cubes of wedge sums.

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@article{arxiv.2505.01375,
  title  = {Lie structures in homotopy and isotopy calculi},
  author = {Danica Kosanović},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.01375},
  year   = {2025}
}

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21 pages, 1 figure

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