nLab differentiable (infinity,1)-category

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Idea

In the context of Goodwillie calculus, an (∞,1)-category is called Goodwillie-differentiable if (∞,1)-functors to it admit “derivatives” in the form of n-excisive approximations. Note that this concept is not related to that of Lie ∞-groupoids.

An (∞,1)-category $\mathcal{C}$ is Goodwillie-differentiable if

it has finite (∞,1)-limits;
it has sequential (∞,1)-colimits;
the (∞,1)-colimit (∞,1)-functor $\underset{\longrightarrow}{\lim} Func(\mathbb{N}, \mathcal{C}) \longrightarrow \mathcal{C}$ is a left exact (∞,1)-functor, hence commutes with finite (∞,1)-limits.

Every (∞,1)-topos is a Goodwillie-differentiable $(\infty,1)$ -category.

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