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Stable power operations

Algebraic Topology 2020-02-07 v1

Abstract

For any EE_\infty ring spectrum EE, we show that there is an algebra Pow(E)\mathrm{Pow}(E) of stable power operations that acts naturally on the underlying spectrum of any EE-algebra. Further, we show that there are maps of rings EPow(E)End(E)E \to \mathrm{Pow}(E) \to \mathrm{End}(E), where the latter determines a restriction from power operations to stable operations in the cohomology of spaces. In the case where EE is the mod-pp Eilenberg-Mac Lane spectrum, this realizes a natural quotient from Mandell's algebra of generalized Steenrod operations to the mod-pp Steenrod algebra. More generally, this arises as part of a classification of endomorphisms of representable functors from an \infty-category C\mathcal{C} to spectra, with particular attention to the case where C\mathcal{C} is an O\mathcal{O}-monoidal \infty-category.

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@article{arxiv.2002.02035,
  title  = {Stable power operations},
  author = {Saul Glasman and Tyler Lawson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.02035},
  year   = {2020}
}

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28 pages. Comments welcome

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