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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480085203321

Titolo

Homotopy invariant algebraic structures : a conference in honor of J. Michael Boardman : AMS Special Session on Homotopy Theory, January 7-10, 1998, Baltimore, MD / / Jean-Pierre Meyer, Jack Morava, W. Stephen Wilson, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1999]

©1999

ISBN

0-8218-7829-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 239

Disciplina

514/.24

Soggetti

Homotopy theory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Publications of J. Michael Boardman""; ""Some History""; ""Letter from R. Thorn""; ""Higher homotopies, Pacts, and the bar construction""; ""The hare and the tortoise""; ""Cobordism of involutions revisited, revisited""; ""Grafting Boardman's cherry trees to quantum field theory""; ""My time as Mike Boardman's student and our work on infinite loop spaces""; ""Research Papers""; ""Stabilizing the lower operations for mod two cohomology""; ""Conditionally convergent spectral sequences""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I � Tools""; ""Part II � Convergence""

""Formal schemes and formal groups""""1. Introduction""; ""2. Schemes""; ""3. Non-affine schemes""; ""4. Formal schemes""; ""5. Formal curves""; ""6. Formal groups""; ""7. Ordinary formal groups""; ""8. Formal schemes in algebraic topology""; ""References""; ""Simplicial commutative Fp-algebras through the looking-glass of the Fp-local spaces""; ""The swiss-cheese operad""; ""K(n + 1) equivalence implies K(n) equivalence""