Geometry & Topology 16 (2012) 685–750

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2012.16.685

Abstract

For R a discrete ring, M a simplicial R–bimodule, and X a simplicial set, we construct the Goodwillie Taylor tower of the reduced K–theory of parametrized endomorphisms K(R;M[X]) as a functor of X. Resolving general R–bimodules by bimodules of the form M[X], this also determines the Goodwillie Taylor tower of K(R;M) as a functor of M. The towers converge when X or M is connected. This also gives the Goodwillie Taylor tower of K(R ⋉ M) ≃K(R;B.M) as a functor of M.

For a functor with smash product F and an F–bimodule P, we construct an invariant W(F;P) which is an analog of TR(F) with coefficients. We study the structure of this invariant and its finite-stage approximations W_n(F;P) and conclude that the functor sending X↦W_n(R;M[X]) is the n–th stage of the Goodwillie calculus Taylor tower of the functor which sends X↦K(R;M[X]). Thus the functor X↦W(R;M[X]) is the full Taylor tower, which converges to K(R;M[X]) for connected X.

Keywords

algebraic K–theory, K–theory of endomorphisms, Goodwillie calculus of functors

Mathematical Subject Classification

Primary: 19D55

Secondary: 18G60, 55P91

References

Publication

Received: 1 March 2008
Revised: 27 October 2011
Accepted: 15 December 2011
Published: 25 April 2012
Proposed: Walter Neumann
Seconded: Haynes Miller, Ralph Cohen

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