The generalized Tate construction

The purpose of this work is give some field notes on exploring the idea that a generalized Tate construction tk reduces chromatic level in stable homotopy theory. The first parts introduce the construction and discuss chromatic reduction. The next section makes a computation and gives the duals of L(n) = L(n)1. The last part looks ahead, mentioning how this computation could be extended to finding the duals of Steinberg summands in corresponding Thom spectra of negative representations, L(n)-q, and presents an equivariant loopspace machine. Finally, observations made are pulled together and brought back to compute the base case of the generalized Tate construction, evaluated on a sphere. Results parallel work of A. Cathcart, B. Guillou and P. May, and N. Stapleton, among others.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mathematics.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Stroilova, Olga (Olga Y.)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Haynes R. Miller.

• Mathematics.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77807

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