A guide to telescopic functors

DOI10.4310/HHA.2008.V10.N3.A13MaRDI QIDQ1004513zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Nicholas J. Kuhn

Publication date 10 March 2009

Published in Homology, Homotopy and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0510, http://intlpress.com/hha/v10/n3/

zbMATH Keywords

spectra-telescope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized (extraordinary) homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology (55N20) Localization and completion in homotopy theory (55P60) Homotopy functors in algebraic topology (55P65) (v_n)-periodicity (55Q51)

Abstract: In the mid 1980's, Pete Bousfield and I constructed certain p--local `telescopic' functors Phi_n from spaces to spectra, for each prime p and each positive integer n. These have striking properties that relate the chromatic approach to homotopy theory to infinite loopspace theory: roughly put, the spectrum Phi_n(Z) captures the v_n periodic homotopy of a space Z. Recently there have been a variety of new uses of these functors, suggesting that they have a central role to play in calculations of periodic phenomena. Here I offer a guide to their construction, characterization, application, and computation.

Review text

In the mid 1980s, P. Bousfield and N. Kuhn constructed certain \(p\)-local `telescopic' functors \(\Phi_n\) from the topological category of spaces (compactly generated topological spaces) to the topological category of spectra \(({\mathcal N}\)-spectra in the sense of MMSS), for each prime \(p\), and each \(n\geq 1\). They are constructed using the full strength of the nilpotence and periodicity theorems of Devanitz-Hopkins-Smith and have some striking properties that relate the chromatic approach to homotopy theory to infinite loop space theory. Recently there have been a variety of new uses of these functors, suggesting that they have a central role to play in calculations of periodic phenomena. Here, the author offers a guide to their construction, characterization, application, and computation.

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