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A family completion theorem for tempered cohomology

Algebraic Topology 2026-08-03 v1

Abstract

Let G{\mathbb{G}} be an oriented P\mathbb{P}-divisible group over a noetherian E\mathbb{E}_\infty-ring RR, let GG be a finite group, and let F\mathcal{F} be a family of subgroups of GG. We show that completion of R(G)GR({\mathbb{G}})_G-modules at F\mathcal{F} agrees with algebraic completion at the ideal IG(F)=HFker(π0R(G)Gπ0R(G)H).I_{\mathbb{G}}(\mathcal{F})=\bigcap_{H\in\mathcal{F}}\mathrm{ker} (\pi_0R({\mathbb{G}})^{ G}\to \pi_0R({\mathbb{G}})^{ H}). For G=μP{\mathbb{G}}=\mu_{\mathbb{P}^\infty} over KU\mathrm{KU} this recovers the family completion theorem of Adams, Haeberly, Jackowski, and May, and for the trivial family the classical Atiyah-Segal completion theorem. The main input is a theory of support for points of the tempered character stack G{BG}{\mathbb{G}}\{{\mathbb{B}} G\}, in the spirit of Segal's analysis of the prime spectrum of the complex representation ring: we show that the support of a point is a single conjugacy class of abelian subgroups of GG, and that the points supported inside F\mathcal{F} are exactly the preimage of V(IG(F))V(I_{\mathbb{G}}(\mathcal{F})) under the affinization map. We also prove a version over locally noetherian geometric base stacks, in which the ideal is replaced by an open substack of G(BG){\mathbb{G}}({\mathbb{B}} G), the analogue over such a base of SpecR(G)G\mathrm{Spec}\,R({\mathbb{G}})^{ G}, and which applies for instance to genuine equivariant topological modular forms.

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@article{arxiv.2608.02390,
  title  = {A family completion theorem for tempered cohomology},
  author = {Leonard Tokic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.02390},
  year   = {2026}
}

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