The spectra ko and ku are not Thom spectra: an approach using THH
Algebraic Topology
2008-10-16 v1
Abstract
We apply an announced result of Blumberg-Cohen-Schlichtkrull to reprove (under restricted hypotheses) a theorem of Mahowald: the connective real and complex K-theory spectra are not Thom spectra.
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@article{arxiv.0810.2585,
title = {The spectra ko and ku are not Thom spectra: an approach using THH},
author = {Vigleik Angeltveit and Michael Hill and Tyler Lawson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2585},
year = {2008}
}
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9 pages, 7 figures