Uniqueness of Morava K-theory
Algebraic Topology
2014-01-14 v2
Abstract
We show that there is an essentially unique S-algebra structure on the Morava K-theory spectrum K(n), while K(n) has uncountably many MU or \hE{n}-algebra structures. Here \hE{n} is the K(n)-localized Johnson-Wilson spectrum. To prove this we set up a spectral sequence computing the homotopy groups of the moduli space of A-infinity structures on a spectrum, and use the theory of S-algebra k-invariants for connective S-algebras due to Dugger and Shipley to show that all the uniqueness obstructions are hit by differentials.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.5032,
title = {Uniqueness of Morava K-theory},
author = {Vigleik Angeltveit},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.5032},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
16 pages. Minor modifications, to appear in Compositio Mathematica.