Witt vectors. Part 1
Rings and Algebras
2008-04-25 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
This is the first part of a 2 part survey on the functor of the big and p-adic Witt vectors.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0804.3888,
title = {Witt vectors. Part 1},
author = {Michiel Hazewinkel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3888},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
This is the first part (of two parts) of a survey on the Witt vectors. A preprint version of a chapter for the Handbook of Algebra. There are 148 pages. Comments, criticims, suggestions, etc. welcome