Recent progress in homotopy theory : proceedings of a conference on recent progress in homotopy theory, March 17-27, 2000, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD / Donald M. Davis ... [and others], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Donald M., 1945-

Series:

Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; v. 293.

Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; 293

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homotopy theory--Congresses.

Homotopy theory.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 409 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Providence, RI : American Mathematical Society, 2002.

Contents:

Two papers on the history of topology

A marriage of manifolds and algebra: The mathematical work of Peter Landweber / H. Miller 3

Some mathematical influences of Stewart Priddy / N. Minami 15

Research papers

Some properties of the K-theory completion / M. Bendersky, R. Thompson 35

Nonimmersions of real projective spaces implied by tmf / R. Bruner, D. Davis, M. Mahowald 45

Higher Euler characteristics for almost extraspecial p-groups / M. Brunetti 69

Unstable p-th order operation and H-spaces / Y. Hemmi 75

The structure of 24 dimensional manifolds having normal bundles which lift to BO[8] / M. Mahowald, M. Hopkins 89

The homology of BPO / P. Hu, I. Kriz 111

A-generators of the cohomology of the Steinberg summand M(n) / M. Inoue 125

Commutators in the homology of H-spaces / J. Lin 141

A solution of Deligne's Hochschild cohomology conjecture / J. McClure, J. Smith 153

Hopf algebra structure of Morava K-theory of the exceptional Lie groups / M. Mimura, T. Nishimoto 195

Minami-Webb type decompositions for compact Lie groups / J. Martino, S. Priddy 233

The method of infinite descent in stable homotopy theory I / D. Ravenel 251

The homotopy groups [pi subscript *](L[subscript n]T(m) [logical and] V(n - 2)) / K. Shimomura 285

The fiber of iterated Freudenthal suspension and Morava K-theory of [Omega superscript k]S[superscript 2e+1] / D. Tamaki 299

On K-flat and K-moonshine-like elements in elliptic cohomology / M. Tanabe 331

The geometric fixed point spectrum of (Z/p)[superscript k] Borel cohomology for E[subscript n] and its completion / T. Torii 343

A possible new approach to the motivic spectral sequence for algebraic K-theory / V. Voevodsky 371

Rings of invariants and inseparable forms of algebras over the Steenrod algebra / C. Wilkerson 381

Chow rings of classifying spaces of extraspecial p groups / N. Yagita 397.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0821828010

OCLC:

48536704