Complex Cobordism vs. Representing Formal Group Laws
Algebraic Topology
2016-06-06 v2
Abstract
We attempt to answer a question of D. C. Ravenel's: "Infinite loopspace theorists, where are you?", or more prosaically: Can one start from the notion of Ring Spectrum Representing [Formal Group Laws] (the functor) and arrive at Complex Cobordism? Our answer is a tentative "sort-of".
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@article{arxiv.1605.09252,
title = {Complex Cobordism vs. Representing Formal Group Laws},
author = {Jesse C. McKeown},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.09252},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
12 p; minor corrections, new references