Let be a prestack, an -point, and say admits a cotangent complex at , this is an object
corepresenting the functor .
When is of the form for a field we have dimension counts
This sequence of (possibly infinite) numbers dimension at the point . If is smooth , we expect to only be non vanishing for . More generally, positive degrees detect “non-smoothness/singularity”, negative detect infinitesimal symmetires/stackiness.
Now recall, Basterra-Mandell’s calculation
We find that at any , .
Generalizing, we find pull back along any -point to the module .
Setting: Setting - Spherical Derived Geometry