UNITARY FUNCTOR CALCULUS WITH REALITY

We construct a calculus of functors in the spirit of orthogonal calculus, which is designed to study ‘functors with reality’ such as the Real classifying space functor, $\BU_\Bbb{R}(-)$ . The calculus produces a Taylor tower, the n-th layer of which is classified by a spectrum with an action of $C_2 \ltimes \U(n)$ . We further give model categorical considerations, producing a zigzag of Quillen equivalences between spectra with an action of $C_2 \ltimes \U(n)$ and a model structure on the category of input functors which captures the homotopy theory of the n-th layer of the Taylor tower.