FUNCTOR CALCULUS AND THE DISCRIMINANT METHOD

Functor Calculus and Operads

Speaker: Gregory Arone (Virginia) Title: Part 1: operads, modules and the chain rule Abstract: Let F be a homotopy functor between the categories of pointed topological spaces or spectra. By the work of Goodwillie, the derivatives of F form a symmetric sequence of spectra ∂∗F . This symmetric sequence determines the homogeneous layers in the Taylor tower of F , but not the extensions in the tow...

Functor Calculus for under Categories and the De Rham Complex

Goodwillie’s calculus of homotopy functors associates a tower of polynomial approximations, the Taylor tower, to a functor of topological spaces over a fixed space. We define a new tower, the varying center tower, for functors of categories with a fixed initial object, such as algebras under a fixed ring spectrum. We construct this new tower using elements of the Taylor tower constructions of B...

Pregroup Calculus as a Logic Functor

Functor Calculus and Operads March 13 – March 18 , 2011 MEALS

Speaker: Gregory Arone (Virginia) Title: Part 1: operads, modules and the chain rule Abstract: Let F be a homotopy functor between the categories of pointed topological spaces or spectra. By the work of Goodwillie, the derivatives of F form a symmetric sequence of spectra ∂∗F . This symmetric sequence determines the homogeneous layers in the Taylor tower of F , but not the extensions in the tow...

The quadratic Fock functor

We construct the quadratic analogue of the boson Fock functor. While in the first order (linear) case all contractions on the 1–particle space can be second quantized, the semigroup of contractions that admit a quadratic second quantization is much smaller due to the nonlinearity. The encouraging fact is that it contains, as proper subgroups (i.e. the contractions), all the gauge transformation...