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This entry relates to a series of papers, beginning with Barwick-Dotto-Glasman-Nardin-Shah 16 which aim to provide common foundations for several different parts of homotopy theory, among which equivariant homotopy theory, parametrized homotopy theory, global homotopy theory and Goodwillie calculus.
For a finite group, various concepts in equivariant homotopy theory are constructed as indexed over an orbit category, such as the homotopy theory of topological G-spaces or of -equivariant spectra, when regarded via Elmendorf's theorem.
An important ingredient of this program is the concept of an atomic orbital -category which is defined in terms of two important properties of the orbit category of :
Orbital: Fiber products of representable presheaves are finite disjoint unions of representable presheaves, a restatement of the fact that the category of finite -sets has pullbacks (Mackey decomposition), so a version of the Beck-Chevalley condition;
Atomic: The triviality of retracts (that is every retraction is an equivalence).
Examples of such -categories satisfying these two properties include:
orbit categories of finite groups;
more generally, orbit categories of profinite groups (where the stabilizers are required to be open);
locally finite groups (where the stabilizers are required to be finite);
any ∞-groupoid;
the cyclonic orbit 2-category (see at cyclotomic spectrum);
the 2-category of connected finite groupoids and covering maps;
the category of finite sets of cardinality and surjective functions;
the topological categories of finite-dimensional inner product spaces (over and ) of dimension and orthogonal projections.
The program looks to generate results which hold for all atomic orbital -categories, for any instance of which, , there are the associated concepts of --category, -space and -spectrum.
For many cases of these atomic orbital -categories there is a conservative (∞,1)-functor to a poset, and so they are EI (∞,1)-categories.
Along with an introduction, nine exposés are planned:
Clark Barwick, Emanuele Dotto, Saul Glasman, Denis Nardin, Jay Shah, Parametrized higher category theory and higher algebra: A general introduction, (arXiv:1608.03654)
Clark Barwick, Emanuele Dotto, Saul Glasman, Denis Nardin, Jay Shah, Parametrized higher category theory and higher algebra: Exposé I – Elements of parametrized higher category theory, (arXiv:1608.03657)
Jay Shah, Parametrized higher category theory and higher algebra: Exposé II - Indexed homotopy limits and colimits, (arXiv:1809.05892)
Denis Nardin, Parametrized higher category theory and higher algebra: Exposé IV - Stability with respect to an orbital ∞-category, (arXiv:1608.07704)
A survey talk is
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