The spectra ko and ku are not Thom spectra: an approach using THH

2008/10/15 by Vigleik Angeltveit, Michael A. Hill, Angeltveit, Vigleik +3
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #55N20 (Primary) 55P42 #55R45 (Secondary) #Algebraic Topology (math.AT) #FOS: Mathematics #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0810.2585

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Abstract

We apply an announced result of Blumberg-Cohen-Schlichtkrull to reprove (under restricted hypotheses) a theorem of Mahowald: the connective real and complex K-theory spectra are not Thom spectra.

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