The Burnside ring and equivariant stable cohomotopy for infinite groups (Q2471536)

From the author's summary: ''The basic notions of the Burnside ring and of equivariant stable cohomotopy have been defined and investigated in detail for finite groups. The purpose of this article is to discuss how these can be generalized to infinite (discrete) groups. The guideline will be the related notion of the representation ring which allows several generalizations to infinite groups, each of which reflects one aspect of the original notion for finite groups. Analogously we will present several possible generalizations of the Burnside ring for finite groups to infinite (discrete) groups. There seems to be no general answer to the question which generalization is the right one. The answer depends on the choice of the background problem such as universal additive properties, induction theory, equivariant stable homotopy theory, representation theory, completion theorems and so on. For finite groups the representation ring and the Burnside ring are related to all these topics simultaneously and for infinite groups the notion seems to split up into different ones which fall together for finite groups but not in general.''