In this paper, for any pointed map
f :
X →
Y between finite type nilpotent CW-complexes, we obtain
L∞ and Lie models of map
f*(
X,Y), the pointed space of based maps homotopic to
f, in terms of Lie algebras constructed from the Quillen models of
X and
Y. The main advantage of our approach is to allow
X to be an infinite dimensional CW-complex, in which case map
f*(
X,Y) has no longer the homotopy type of a finite type CW-complex.
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