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Algebraic Goodwillie spectral sequence

Algebraic Topology 2025-07-18 v2

Abstract

Let sL\mathit{s}\mathcal{L} be the \infty-category of simplicial restricted Lie algebras over F=Fp\mathbf{F} = \overline{\mathbf{F}}_p, the algebraic closure of a finite field Fp\mathbf{F}_p. By the work of A. K. Bousfield et al. on the unstable Adams spectral sequence, the category sL\mathit{s}\mathcal{L} can be viewed as an algebraic approximation of the \infty-category of pointed pp-complete spaces. We study the functor calculus in the category sL\mathit{s}\mathcal{L}. More specifically, we consider the Taylor tower for the functor Lr ⁣:ModF0sLL^r\colon \mathcal{M}\mathrm{od}^{\geq 0}_{\mathbf{F}} \to \mathit{s}\mathcal{L} of a free simplicial restricted Lie algebra together with the associated Goodwillie spectral sequence. We show that this spectral sequence evaluated at ΣlF\Sigma^l \mathbf{F}, l0l\geq 0 degenerates on the third page after a suitable re-indexing, which proves an algebraic version of the Whitehead conjecture. In our proof we compute explicitly the differentials of the Goodwillie spectral sequence in terms of the Λ\Lambda-algebra of A. K. Bousfield et al. and the Dyer-Lashof-Lie power operations, which naturally act on the homology groups of a spectral Lie algebra. As an essential ingredient of our calculations, we establish a general Leibniz rule in functor calculus associated to the composition of mapping spaces, which conceptualizes certain formulas of W. H. Lin. Also, as a byproduct, we identify previously unknown Adem relations for the Dyer-Lashof-Lie operations in the odd-primary case.

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@article{arxiv.2303.06240,
  title  = {Algebraic Goodwillie spectral sequence},
  author = {Nikolay Konovalov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.06240},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

120 pages. Comments welcome. v2: Section 7 is reworked, new subsection 7.1 is added, and subsection 7.4 is streamlined. Also, numerous minor corrections. To appear in Memoirs of AMS

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