Structured ring spectra

Within algebraic topology, the prominent role of multiplicative cohomology theories has led to a great deal of foundational research on ring spectra and in the 1990s this gave rise to significant new approaches to constructing categories of spectra and ring-like objects in them. This book contains s...

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Other Authors: Baker, Andrew (Editor), Richter, Birgit (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2004
Series:London Mathematical Society lecture note series
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Within algebraic topology, the prominent role of multiplicative cohomology theories has led to a great deal of foundational research on ring spectra and in the 1990s this gave rise to significant new approaches to constructing categories of spectra and ring-like objects in them. This book contains some important new contributions to the theory of structured ring spectra as well as survey papers describing these and relationships between them. One important aspect is the study of strict multiplicative structures on spectra and the development of obstruction theories to imposing strictly associative and commutative ring structures on spectra. A different topic is the transfer of classical algebraic methods and ideas, such as Morita theory, to the world of stable homotopy
Physical Description:236 pages digital
ISBN:9780511529955