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Brown-Peterson spectra in stable A^1-homotopy theory

Algebraic Geometry 2007-05-23 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We characterize ring spectra morphisms from the algebraic cobordism spectrum \QTRBbbMGL\QTR{Bbb}{MGL} (\QCITE{cite}{}{Vo1}) to an oriented spectrum \QTRBbbE\QTR{Bbb}{E} (in the sense of Morel \QCITE{cite}{}{Mo}) via formal group laws on the ''topological'' subring E=iE2i,iE^{*}=\oplus_iE^{2i,i} of EE^{**}. This result is then used to construct for any prime pp a motivic Quillen idempotent on \QTRBbbMGL(p)\QTR{Bbb}{MGL}_{(p)}. This defines the BPBP-spectrum associated to the prime pp as in Quillen's \QCITE{cite}{}{Q1} for the complex-oriented topological case.

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@article{arxiv.math/0004050,
  title  = {Brown-Peterson spectra in stable A^1-homotopy theory},
  author = {Gabriele Vezzosi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0004050},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

14 pages; a section on motivations has been added