On the derivative of the stable homotopy of mapping spaces

John R. Klein

Using the {\it chain rule}, we give a homotopy theoretic approach to identifying the derivative of the functor $X \mapsto Q_+(X^K)$.

Homology, Homotopy and Applications, Vol. 5(2003), No. 1, pp. 549-599

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