Functors on the category gr of finitely generated free groups and group homomorphisms appear naturally in different contexts of topology. For example, Hochschild-Pirashvili homology for a wedge of circles or Jacobi diagrams in handlebodies give rise to interesting functors on gr. Some of these natural examples satisfy further properties: they are analytic and/or exponential. Pirashvili proves that the category of exponential contravariant functors from gr to the category k-Mod of k-modules is equivalent to the category of cocommutative Hopf algebras over k. Powell proves an equivalence between the category of analytic contravariant functors from gr to k-Mod, and the category of linear functors on the linear PROP associated to the Lie operad when k is a field of characteristic 0. In this talk, after explaining these two equivalences of categories, I will explain how they interact with each other. (This is a joint work with Minkyu Kim).[-]

Given a nilpotent Lie algebra over a characteristic zero field, one can construct a group in a universal way via the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula. This integration procedure admits generalizations to dg Lie or L∞-algebras, giving in general ∞-groupoid of deformations that it encodes, as by the Lurie-Pridham correspondence, infinitesimal deformation problems are equivalent to dg Lie algebras. The recent work of Brantner-Mathew establishes a correspondence between infinitesimal deformation problems and partition Lie algebras over a positive characteristic field. In this talk, I will explain how to construct an analogue of the integration functor for certain point-set models of (spectral) partition Lie algebras, and how this integration functor can recover the associated deformation problem under some assumptions. Furthermore, I will discuss some applications of these constructions to unstable p-adic homotopy theory.[-]