Morava K-theory

Morava K-theory

In stable homotopy theory, a branch of mathematics, Morava K-theory is one of a collection of cohomology theories introduced in algebraic topology by Jack Morava in unpublished preprints in the early 1970s. For every prime number p (which is suppressed in the notation), it consists of theories K(n) for each nonnegative integer n, each a ring spectrum in the sense of homotopy theory. Johnson & Wilson (1975) published the first account of the theories.

Details

The theory K(0) agrees with singular homology with rational coefficients, whereas K(1) is a summand of mod-p complex K-theory. The theory K(n) has coefficient ring

Fp[vn,vn−1]

where vn has degree 2(pn − 1). In particular, Morava K-theory is periodic with this period, in much the same way that complex K-theory has period 2.

These theories have several remarkable properties.

  • They have Künneth isomorphisms for arbitrary pairs of spaces: that is, for X and Y CW complexes, we have
K(n)_*(X \times Y) \cong K(n)_*(X) \otimes_{K(n)_*} K(n)_*(Y).
  • They are "fields" in the category of ring spectra. In other words every module spectrum over K(n) is free, i.e. a wedge of suspensions of K(n).
  • They are complex oriented, and the formal group they define has height n.
  • Every finite p-local spectrum X has the property that K(n)(X) = 0 if and only if n is less than a certain number N, called the type of the spectrum X. By a theorem of Devinatz–Hopkins–Smith, every thick subcategory of the category of finite p-local spectra is the subcategory of type-n spectra for some n.

References

  • Johnson, David Copeland; Wilson, W. Stephen (1975), "BP operations and Morava's extraordinary K-theories.", Math. Z. 144 (1): 55−75, doi:10.1007/BF01214408, MR0377856 
  • Ravenel, Douglas C. (1992), Nilpotence and periodicity in stable homotopy theory, Annals of Mathematics Sudies, 128, Princeton University Press, MR1192553 
  • Würgler, Urs (1991), "Morava K-theories: a survey", Algebraic topology Poznan 1989, Lecture Notes in Math., 1474, Berlin: Springer, pp. 111 138, doi:10.1007/BFb0084741, ISBN 978-3-540-54098-4, MR1133896 

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