Operadic Dold-Kan correspondence and mapping spaces between enriched operads

Abstract: According to the Dold-Kan correspondence, the normalization functor determines a categorical equivalence between simplicial abelian groups and non-negatively graded chain complexes. Nevertheless, the same statement is no longer true when extending to the context of algebras over an operad. In spite of this, the existence of the Dold-Kan correspondence for operadic algebras can still be realized from a homotopy-theoretic perspective. This was indeed observed for $A_\infty$-algebras by Schwede-Shipley, and for $E_\infty$-algebras by Mandell, and more generally, for algebras over any $\Sigma$-cofibrant operad due to White-Yau. In the first part of the paper, we shall prove further that the normalization functor induces an equivalence between the $\infty$-categories of operads with non-fixed sets of colors, in the Dwyer-Kan homotopy theory framework. Subsequently, we delve into investigating the mapping spaces between enriched operads by relating them to mapping spaces between operadic bimodules via nice fiber sequences. The validity of the main statements is examined first for simplicial operads, and then for connective dg operads due to the operadic Dold-Kan correspondence.