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Complex Cobordism vs. Representing Formal Group Laws

2016/05/30 by Jesse C. McKeown, McKeown, Jesse C.
Mathematics · #55N22 #Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics #Algebraic Topology (math.AT) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1605.09252

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Abstract

We attempt to answer a question of D. C. Ravenel's: "Infinite loopspace theorists, where are you?", or more prosaically: Can one start from the notion of Ring Spectrum Representing [Formal Group Laws] (the functor) and arrive at Complex Cobordism? Our answer is a tentative "sort-of".

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