Loop structures in Taylor towers

We study spaces of natural transformations between homogeneous functors in Goodwillie’s calculus of homotopy functors and in Weiss’s orthogonal calculus. We give a description of such spaces of natural transformations in terms of the homotopy fixed point construction. Our main application uses this description in combination with the Segal Conjecture to obtain a delooping theorem for connecting maps in the Goodwillie tower of the identity and in the Weiss tower of $B U (V)$ . The interest in such deloopings stems from conjectures made by the first and the third author [Filtered spectra arising from permutative categories, J. Reine Angew. Math. 604 (2007) 73-136] that these towers provide a source of contracting homotopies for certain projective chain complexes of spectra.

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Keywords

derived natural transformations, Whitehead Conjecture, homotopy calculus, orthogonal calculus, homogeneous functors, delooping, Segal Conjecture

Mathematical Subject Classification 2000

Primary: 55P65

Secondary: 55P47, 18G55

References

Publication

Received: 24 April 2007

Revised: 30 November 2007

Accepted: 19 December 2007

Published: 8 February 2008

Authors

Gregory Z Arone
Kerchof Hall University of Virginia PO Box 400137 Charlottesville VA 22904 USA
http://www.math.virginia.edu/~zga2m/
William G Dwyer
Department of Mathematics University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN 46556 USA
http://www.nd.edu/~wgd/
Kathryn Lesh
Department of Mathematics Union College Schenectady NY 12309 USA
http://www.math.union.edu/~leshk/

Volume 8, issue 1 (2008)

Gregory Z Arone, William G Dwyer and Kathryn Lesh

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