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Global homotopy theory via partially lax limits

Sil Linskens, Denis Nardin and Luca Pol

Geometry & Topology 29 (2025) 1345–1440
Abstract

We provide new -categorical models for unstable and stable global homotopy theory. We use the notion of partially lax limits to formalize the idea that a global object is a collection of G-objects, one for each compact Lie group G, which are compatible with the restriction–inflation functors. More precisely, we show that the -category of global spaces is equivalent to a partially lax limit of the functor sending a compact Lie group G to the -category of G-spaces. We also prove the stable version of this result, showing that the -category of global spectra is equivalent to the partially lax limit of a diagram of G-spectra. Finally, the techniques employed in the previous cases allow us to describe the -category of proper G-spectra for a Lie group G, as a limit of a diagram of H-spectra for H running over all compact subgroups of G.

Keywords
partially lax limits, global homotopy theory, proper equivariant homotopy theory
Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 55N91, 55P91
Secondary: 18N70
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Publication
Received: 22 June 2022
Revised: 5 March 2024
Accepted: 8 June 2024
Published: 31 May 2025
Proposed: Jesper Grodal
Seconded: Mark Behrens, Haynes R Miller
Authors
Sil Linskens
Fakultät für Mathematik
Universität Regensburg
Regensburg
Germany
Denis Nardin
Fakultät für Mathematik
Universität Regensburg
Regensburg
Germany
Luca Pol
Fakultät für Mathematik
Universität Regensburg
Regensburg
Germany

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