Parametrized spectra, a low-tech approach
arXiv:1906.04773
Abstract
We give an alternative treatment of the foundations of parametrized spectra, with an eye toward applications in fixed-point theory. We cover most of the central results from the book of May and Sigurdsson, sometimes with weaker hypotheses, and give a new construction of the bicategory of parametrized spectra. We also give a careful account of coherence results at the level of homotopy categories. This is an expository work, akin to a set of lecture notes, encompassing and extending the more novel material in the paper "A convenient category of parametrized spectra." Our primary goal is to give careful and explicit explanations for the standard facts surrounding the bicategory of parametrized spectra and the Reidemeister trace. In particular, our proof of Costenoble-Waner duality gives a more explicit account of how the concrete index formulas of Dold are related to the abstract theory of bicategorical duality from May and Sigurdsson, Ponto, and Shulman.
183 pages including references and index, 5 figures. v3: small changes made to refer to the new condensed version "A convenient category of parametrized spectra." A short user's guide accompanies the text, see https://people.math.binghamton.edu/malkiewich/users_guide_parametrized.pdf
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