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Exterior power operations on higher $K$-groups via binary complexes

K-Theory and Homology 2017-06-14 v3 Algebraic Geometry Representation Theory

Abstract

We use Grayson's binary multicomplex presentation of algebraic KK-theory to give a new construction of exterior power operations on the higher KK-groups of a (quasi-compact) scheme. We show that these operations satisfy the axioms of a λ\lambda-ring, including the product and composition laws. To prove the composition law we show that the Grothendieck group of the exact category of integral polynomial functors is the universal λ\lambda-ring on one generator.

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@article{arxiv.1607.01685,
  title  = {Exterior power operations on higher $K$-groups via binary complexes},
  author = {Tom Harris and Bernhard Köck and Lenny Taelman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.01685},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

35 pages; v2: reference to a correspondence between Deligne and Grothendieck added; v3: referee's comments incorporated, to appear in Annals of K-Theory

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