Topological Hermitian cobordism (Q505023)

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    Topological Hermitian cobordism (English)
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    18 January 2017
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    This paper studies a (genuine) \(\mathbb{Z}/2 \times \mathbb{Z}/2\)-spectrum \(M\mathbb{R}_{\mathbb{Z}/2}\) that can be described as combining the \(\mathbb{Z}/2\) structure of Real cobordism with ``\(\mathbb{Z}/2\)-equivariant cobordism''. Non-equivariantly, the spectrum \(M\mathbb{R}_{\mathbb{Z}/2}\) is \(M\mathbb{R}\), an explicit description of the spaces of this spectrum and their \(\mathbb{Z}/2 \times \mathbb{Z}/2\)-structure is given. An appendix to the paper justifies why this spectrum is topological Hermitian cobordism -- the topological realization of the \(\mathbb{Z}/2\)-equivariant motivic spectrum \(MGL \mathbb{R}\). The authors calculate the coefficients of \(M\mathbb{R}_{\mathbb{Z}/2}\) and calculate the \(M\mathbb{R}^*\) cohomology of stunted projective space. The method of the calculation is to construct a new version of a ``Tate diagram'' making greater use of universal spaces for families of subgroups of \(\mathbb{Z}/2 \times \mathbb{Z}/2\) and acknowledging that \(M\mathbb{R}_{\mathbb{Z}/2}\) is not complete (its spectrum of fixed points is different from its spectrum of homotopy fixed points).
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    cobordism
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    Hermitian \(K\)-theory
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    equivariant stable homotopy theory
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