Rosona Eldred: Comparing the homotopy functor calculi
Time: Tue 2015-12-08 13.15 - 15.00
Location: Room 3418, Lindstedtsvägen 25, 4th floor, Department of mathematics, KTH
Participating: Rosona Eldred
ABSTRACT: In the 90s, Goodwillie developed a calculus of homotopy functors of spaces/spectra, which gave rise to other variants, such as the orthogonal calculus of Weiss for functors of real inner product spaces.
I will report on joint work with David Barnes wherein we formalize the comparison of these two theories, which involves making rigorous the folk result that n-excisive implies n-polynomial.