Examples of descent up to nilpotence

2017/01/06 by Mathew, Akhil · 1 citation
#Algebraic Topology (math.AT) #Category Theory (math.CT) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1701.01528

Abstract

We give a survey of the ideas of descent and nilpotence. We focus on examples arising from chromatic homotopy theory and from group actions, as well as a few examples in algebra.

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