STABLE HOMOTOPY THEORY AND FORMAL GROUPS

Speaker(s)

Tilman Baue

Affiliation

Vrije Universiteit

Date

Oct. 19, 2009, 4 p.m.

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Seminar

Seminar Algebraic Topology

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Spectra and cohomology theories Summary: The category of spectra is obtained by formally making the suspension functor on the category of pointed spaces invertible. This category is important because it is where homology theories live: every (generalized) homology theory is representable by a spectrum, and every spectrum represents a homology theory.

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