Unstable $1$-semiadditivity as classifying Goodwillie towers
Abstract
A stable -category is -semiadditive if the norms for all finite group actions are equivalences. In the presence of -semiadditivity, Goodwillie calculus simplifies drastically. We introduce two variants of -semiadditivity for an -category and study their relation to the Goodwillie calculus of functors . We demonstrate that these variations of -semiadditivity are complete obstructions to the problem of endowing with either a right module or a divided power right module structure which completely classifies the Goodwillie tower of . We find applications to algebraic localizations of spaces, the Morita theory of operads, and bar-cobar duality of algebras. Along the way, we address several milestones in these areas including: Lie structures in the Goodwillie calculus of spaces, spectral Lie algebra models of -periodic homotopy theory, and the Poincar\'e/Koszul duality of -algebras.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2506.11245,
title = {Unstable $1$-semiadditivity as classifying Goodwillie towers},
author = {Connor Malin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.11245},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
62 pages; submitted version