Exterior power operations on higher K-theory (Q913939)

The author constructs lambda operations in the K-theory of exact categories with suitable notions of exterior powers, for instance categories of vector bundles on schemes. More generally, if \(M_ 0,M_ 1,..\). is a suitable sequence of categories with operations \(\bigwedge^ k: M_ n\to M_{nk}\), then he constructs operations \(\lambda^ k: K_*M_ n\to K_*M_{nk}\). The method is simplicial; it uses the construction of K-theory given by \textit{H. Gillet} and \textit{D. Grayson} [Ill. J. Math. 31, 574-597 (1987; Zbl 0628.55011)]. Thus the method avoids the plus-construction, which works only for the algebraic K-theory of rings.