English

Witt vectors with coefficients and TR

Algebraic Topology 2023-12-21 v1

Abstract

We give a new construction of pp-typical Witt vectors with coefficients in terms of ghost maps and show that this construction is isomorphic to the one defined in terms of formal power series from the authors' previous paper. We show that our construction recovers Kaledin's polynomial Witt vectors in the case of vector spaces over a perfect field of characteristic pp. We then identify the components of the pp-typical TR with coefficients, originally defined by Lindenstrauss and McCarthy and later reworked by the second and third authors in joint work with McCandless, with the pp-typical Witt vectors with coefficients. This extends a celebrated result of Hesselholt and Hesselholt-Madsen relating the components of TR with the Witt vectors. As an application, we given an algebraic description of the components of the Hill-Hopkins-Ravenel norm for cyclic pp-groups in terms of pp-typical Witt vectors with coefficients.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2312.12971,
  title  = {Witt vectors with coefficients and TR},
  author = {Emanuele Dotto and Achim Krause and Thomas Nikolaus and Irakli Patchkoria},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.12971},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

51 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-28T13:57:27.960Z