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Record Nr.

UNISA996466630503316

Autore

Kochman Stanley O. <1946->

Titolo

Stable homotopy groups of spheres : a computer-assisted approach / / Stanley O. Kochman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Heidelberg : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1990]

©1990

ISBN

3-540-46993-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 1990.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 334 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics ; ; 1423

Disciplina

514.24

Soggetti

Homotopy groups - Data processing

Sphere

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Toda brackets -- Low dimensional computations -- The image of J -- The Japanese stems (?N, 9?N?31) -- The Chicago stem (?S N, 32?N?45) -- The new stems (?S N, 46?N?64) -- The elements of arf invariant one.

Sommario/riassunto

A central problem in algebraic topology is the calculation of the values of the stable homotopy groups of spheres +*S. In this book, a new method for this is developed based upon the analysis of the Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence. After the tools for this analysis are developed, these methods are applied to compute inductively the first 64 stable stems, a substantial improvement over the previously known 45. Much of this computation is algorithmic and is done by computer. As an application, an element of degree 62 of Kervaire invariant one is shown to have order two. This book will be useful to algebraic topologists and graduate students with a knowledge of basic homotopy theory and Brown-Peterson homology; for its methods, as a reference on the structure of the first 64 stable stems and for the tables depicting the behavior of the Atiyah-Hirzebruch and classical Adams spectral sequences through degree 64.