English

Unitary Functor Calculus with Reality

Algebraic Topology 2021-11-23 v2

Abstract

We construct a calculus of functors in the spirit of orthogonal calculus, which is designed to study "functors with reality" such as the Real classifying space functor, BUR()BU_\mathbb{R}(-). The calculus produces a Taylor tower, the nn-th layer of which is classified by a spectrum with an action of C2U(n)C_2 \ltimes U(n). We further give model categorical considerations, producing a zig-zag of Quillen equivalences between spectra with an action of C2U(n)C_2 \ltimes U(n) and a model structure on the category of input functors which captures the homotopy theory of the nn-th layer of the Taylor tower.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2004.14886,
  title  = {Unitary Functor Calculus with Reality},
  author = {Niall Taggart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.14886},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

27 pages, v.2 accepted version

R2 v1 2026-06-23T15:13:01.804Z