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$THH$ of the Morava $E$-theory Spectrum $E_{2}$

Algebraic Topology 2025-12-30 v3

Abstract

The Morava EE-theories, EnE_{n}, are complex-oriented 22-periodic ring spectra, with homotopy groups WFpn[[u1,u2,...,un1]][u,u1]\mathbb{W}_{\mathbb{F}_{p^{n}}}[[u_{1}, u_{2}, ... , u_{n-1}]][u,u^{-1}]. Here W\mathbb{W} denotes the Witt vector ring. EnE_{n} is a Landweber exact spectrum and hence uniquely determined by this ring as BPBP_{\ast}-algebra. Algebraic KK-theory of EnE_{n} is a key ingredient towards analyzing the layers in the pp-complete Waldhausen KK-theory chromatic tower. One hopes to use the machinery of trace methods to get results towards KK-theory once the computation for THH(En)THH(E_{n}) is known. In this paper we describe THH(E2)THH(E_{2}) as part of consecutive chain of cofiber sequences where each cofiber sits in the next cofiber sequence and the first term of each cofiber sequence is describable completely in terms of suspensions and localizations of E2E_{2}. For these results, we first calculate K(i)K(i)-homology of THH(E2)THH(E_{2}) using a B\"okstedt spectral sequence and then lift the generating classes of K(1)K(1)-homology to fundamental classes in homotopy group of THH(E2)THH(E_{2}). These lifts allow us to construct terms of the cofiber sequence and explicitly understand how they map to THH(E2)THH(E_{2}).

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@article{arxiv.2307.15135,
  title  = {$THH$ of the Morava $E$-theory Spectrum $E_{2}$},
  author = {Sanjana Agarwal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.15135},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

30 pages, minor edits, typos corrected. Accepted in JHRS

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