Multiplicative Equivariant Thom Spectra & Structured Real Orientations
Abstract
For strongly even -rings we show that any homotopy ring map lifts to an -map . This refines the Hahn-Shi Real orientations of Lubin-Tate theories , the Hirzebruch level- orientations of , and Quillen's idempotent to -maps. It allows us to provide the first structured version of - we show that it admits an -algebra structure. Furthermore, we extend these results to larger groups. In particular, for a finite group the Hahn-Shi orientation refines to a -map, and admits a -algebra structure. Essential to this program is a robust theory of multiplicative equivariant Thom spectra, which we develop using parametrized higher algebra and fibrous patterns - particularly, we provide an equivariant version of Antol\'in-Camarena--Barthel's universal property for multiplicative Thom spectra and use this to deduce a multiplicative equivariant Thom isomorphism. We provide a number of categorical results of independent interest, most notably a distributive monoidal structure on parametrized left module categories.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.15573,
title = {Multiplicative Equivariant Thom Spectra & Structured Real Orientations},
author = {Ryan Quinn and Qi Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.15573},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
92 pages, various improvements, comments still very welcome!