Geometry & Topology Monographs 10 (2007) 245–279

DOI: 10.2140/gtm.2007.10.245

arXiv: math.AT/0410342

Abstract

This paper is based on talks I gave in Nagoya and Kinosaki in August of 2003. I survey, from my own perspective, Goodwillie’s work on towers associated to continuous functors between topological model categories, and then include a discussion of applications to periodic homotopy as in my work and the work of Arone–Mahowald.

Keywords

Goodwillie calculus, model categories, periodic homotopy

Mathematical Subject Classification

Primary: 55N20, 55P43, 55P47

Secondary: 18G55

References

Publication

Received: 13 October 2004
Revised: 12 July 2005
Published: 29 January 2007

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