Operads and chain rules for the calculus of functors

dc.creatorArone, Gregory
dc.creatorChing, Michael
dc.date2009-02-03
dc.date2009-02-04
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:37:15Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:37:15Z
dc.descriptionWe study the structure possessed by the Goodwillie derivatives of a pointed homotopy functor of based topological spaces. These derivatives naturally form a bimodule over the operad consisting of the derivatives of the identity functor. We then use these bimodule structures to give a chain rule for higher derivatives in the calculus of functors, extending that of Klein and Rognes. This chain rule expresses the derivatives of FG as a derived composition product of the derivatives of F and G over the derivatives of the identity. There are two main ingredients in our proofs. Firstly, we construct new models for the Goodwillie derivatives of functors of spectra. These models allow for natural composition maps that yield operad and module structures. Then, we use a cosimplicial cobar construction to transfer this structure to functors of topological spaces. A form of Koszul duality for operads of spectra plays a key role in this.
dc.description118 pages, NSF acknowledgement added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0399
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0399
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/218372
dc.subjectAlgebraic Topology
dc.subjectCategory Theory
dc.subject55P65
dc.titleOperads and chain rules for the calculus of functors
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