On the Classifying Space of Homogeneous Functors

Abstract

Let $M$ be a manifold and let $\mathcal{M}$ be a simplicial model category. Given an object $A$ in $\mathcal{M}$, Tsopméné and Stanley constructed a topological space $\hat{A}$ that classifies homogeneous functors of degree $k$ from the poset of open subsets of $M$ into $\mathcal{M}$. They showed that the set of weak equivalent classes of such functors that maps disjoint union of $k$ open balls to $A$ is in bijection with the set $[F_k(M), \hat{A}]$ of homotopy classes of maps out of $F_k(M)$, the unordered configuration space of $k$ points in $M$. In this paper, we begin a study of the space $\hat{A}$, and we prove that $\hat{A}$ is weakly equivalent to the classifying space $B\mathrm{haut}(A)$, where $\mathrm{haut}(A)$ is the simplicial monoid of self weak equivalences of $A$. This proves a conjecture of Tsopméné and Stanley. Our result enables us to generalize the classification of homogeneous functors of Weiss for $\mathcal{M}=\mathcal{T}\mathrm{op}$ to any simplicial model category.