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Examples of descent up to nilpotence

Algebraic Topology 2017-01-09 v1 Category Theory

Abstract

We give a survey of the ideas of descent and nilpotence. We focus on examples arising from chromatic homotopy theory and from group actions, as well as a few examples in algebra.

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@article{arxiv.1701.01528,
  title  = {Examples of descent up to nilpotence},
  author = {Akhil Mathew},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.01528},
  year   = {2017}
}

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31 pages