Formal ternary laws and Buchstaber's 2-groups
K-Theory and Homology
2022-06-23 v2 Commutative Algebra
Algebraic Topology
Abstract
We develop the algebraic formalism of the formal ternary laws of C. Walter and we compare them to Buchstaber's 2-valued formal group laws. We also compute the "elementary" formal ternary laws (after inverting 2) using a computer program available online.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2112.03646,
title = {Formal ternary laws and Buchstaber's 2-groups},
author = {David Coulette and Frédéric Déglise and Jean Fasel and Jens Hornbostel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.03646},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
35 pages. Updated introduction and various typos fixed. Comments are still welcome!