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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788651603321

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

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.