Abstract. We construct a Taylor tower for functors from pointed categories to abelian categories via cotriples associated to cross effect functors. The tower was inspired by Goodwillie's Taylor tower for functors of spaces, and is related to Dold and Puppe's stable derived functors and Mac Lane's Q-construction. We study the layers, DnF = fiber(PnF → P n−1 F ), and the limit of the tower. For the latter we determine a condition on the cross effects that guarantees convergence. We define differentials for functors, and establish chain and product rules for them. We conclude by studying exponential functors in this setting and describing their Taylor towers.
We study functors F : C f → D where C and D are simplicial model categories and C f is the category consisting of objects that factor a fixed morphism f : A → B in C. We define the analogs of Eilenberg and Mac Lane's cross effect functors in this context, and identify explicit adjoint pairs of functors whose associated cotriples are the diagonals of the cross effects. With this, we generalize the cotriple Taylor tower construction of Deriving calculus with cotriples (by the second and third authors) from the setting of functors from pointed categories to abelian categories to that of functors from C f to S, a suitable category of spectra, to produce a tower of functors · · · → Γ n+1
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