Rational 𝑆¹-equivariant stable homotopy theory (Q4243757)

This is an interesting book, a systematic study of rational \(S^1\)-equivariant cohomology theories and of their representing objects, rational \(S^1\)-spectra. In chapter 0 the author presents the motivation and an overview of the book. The work is divided into four parts. The foundation for the rest is Part I in which he constructs the algebraic models for various classes of \(T\)-spectra, \(T\) the circle group. In the other parts he uses the models of Part I to study natural problems. In Part II he identifies the algebraic counterparts of various changes of group functors, in Part III he considers several classes of examples of particular interest and in Part IV he examines the algebra of the models and obtains models for the smash product and the function spectrum. Each part has a detailed introduction. Part I ``The algebraic model of rational \(T\)-spectra'' is on the construction of a complete algebraic model for the homotopy category of \(S^1\)-spectra. The model is of homological dimension one, and is simple enough to allow practical calculations. He obtains a classification of rational \(S^1\)-equivariant cohomology theories. The chapters of this part are: 1. Introduction to Part I; 2. Topological building blocks; 3. Maps between \(F\)- free \(T\)-spectra; 4. Categorical reprocessing; 5. Assembly and the standard model; 6. The torsion model. The second part ``Change of group functors in algebra and topology'' identifies algebraic models of various functors that change the ambient group of equivariance. This part is of interest in its own right, but it has further justification in the applications of Part III, too. The author develops the necessary algebra for the structure of the analyses and then he explains the properties of topological constructions which relate it to algebra. Finally, the algebraic and topological functors are shown to correspond using these two parallel structures. He also outlines the general methods he employed for studying functors. The chapters of this part are: 7. Introduction to Part II; 8. Induction, coinduction and geometric fixed points; 9. Algebraic inflation and deflation; 10. Inflation, Lewis-May fixed points and quotients. The material in Part III is a collection of applications of the general theory developed in Part I and II, and the chapters are completely independent of each other. The author gives a rational analysis of a number of interesting phenomena such as ordinary cohomology, the Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence, the Segal conjecture, \(K\)-theory and topological cyclic homology. The main theoretical problem is to show that the equivalence of the category of \(T\)-spectra and the derived category of the standard model can be obtained from a chain of equivalences arising from adjoint pairs of functors on underlying Quillen model categories. The chapters of this part are: 11. Introduction to Part III; 12. Homotopy Mackey functors and related constructions; 13. Classical miscellany; 14. Cyclic and Tate cohomology; 15. Cyclotomic spectra and topological cyclic cohomology. In Part IV ``Tensor and Hom in algebra and topology'' the author makes an intensive study of the algebraic models. The models are given by the appropriate derived category versions of tensor product and Hom functors. The chapters of this part are: 16. Introduction; 17. Torsion functors; 18. Torsion functors for the semifree standard model; 19. Wide spheres and representing the semifree torsion functor; 20. Torsion functors for the full standard model ; 21. Product functors; 22.The tensor-Hom adjunction; 23. The derived tensor-Hom adjunction; 24. Smash products, function spectra and Lewis-May fixed points. The book has also a number of appendices on Mackey functors, on closed model categories, on conventions, indices of definitions and of notations, and a summary of the two main models: standard model and torsion model.