[rho]-compact groups as framed manifolds

We describe a natural way to associate to any [rho]-compact group an element of the [rho]-local stable stems, which, applied to the [rho]-completion of a compact Lie group G, coincides with the element represented by the manifold G with its left-invariant framing. To this end, we construct a d-dimensional sphere SG with a stable G-action for every d-dimensional [rho]-compact group G, which generalizes the one-point compactification of the Lie algebra of a Lie group. The homotopy class represented by G is then constructed by means of a transfer map between the Thom spaces of spherical fibrations over BG associated with SG.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mathematics.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2002

Author dc:creator

• Bauer, Tilman, 1973-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Michael J. Hopkins.

• Mathematics.

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

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8401

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/8401