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arxiv: 0710.5567 · v3 · submitted 2007-10-30 · 🧮 math.AT

A chain rule for Goodwillie derivatives of functors from spectra to spectra

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We prove a chain rule for the Goodwillie calculus of functors from spectra to spectra. We show that the (higher) derivatives of a composite functor $FG$ at a base object $X$ are given by taking the composition product (in the sense of symmetric sequences) of the derivatives of $F$ at $G(X)$ with the derivatives of $G$ at $X$. We also consider the question of finding $P_n(FG)$, and give an explicit formula for this when $F$ is homogeneous.

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