Mathematics – Algebraic Topology
Scientific paper
2010-12-03
Mathematics
Algebraic Topology
v2: 23 pages, clarified exposition in many parts, to appear in AGT
Scientific paper
We analyze the homological behavior of the attaching maps in the 2-local Goodwillie tower of the identity evaluated at S^1. We show that they exhibit the same homological behavior as the James-Hopf maps used by N. Kuhn to prove the 2-primary Whitehead conjecture. We use this to prove a calculus form of the Whitehead conjecture: the Whitehead sequence is a contracting homotopy for the Goodwillie tower of S^1 at the prime 2.
Behrens Mark
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