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Although Σ and Ω are autoequivalences of Spectra, so that the maps X → ΩΣX and ΣΩX → X are equivalences, that does not mean that Σ sends maps of these forms in Top to equivalences in Spectra, because Σ does not commute with Ω. For instance, if X is the space S0, then ΣΩX is a point, and ΣΩX → X is clearly not sent to an equivalence by Σ. So, you are not going to get such a functor F which Σ factors through.

You can construct Spectra categorically by adjoining an inverse to the endofunctor Σ of Top. Inverting an endofunctor is a very different operation than inverting maps! It's like the difference between forming ℤ[1/p] and ℤ/(p).

Reid Barton
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