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