Subalgebras of group cohomology defined by infinite loop spaces (Q556227)

The authors generalize the definition of the \textit{Chern subring } of \(H^{\text{even}}(G;\mathbb Z)\) for a group \(G\), generated by the Chern classes of all irreducible representations of \(G\), in the following way: Let \(\{Y_i\}\) be a family of spaces and \(\mathcal F\) a set of maps \(f: X\to Y_i\). Let \(R\) be a ring and define \(Ch_{\mathcal F} (X;R)\) to be the subring of \(H^* (X;R)\) generated by all elements \(f^*(y)\), \(y \in H^*(Y_i; R)\) homogeneous, \(f \in \mathcal F\). The paper is devoted to many applications of this construction like \(Ch_E(X;R)\), where \(E\) is an \(\Omega\)-spectrum and \(\mathcal F\) are all mappings \(f: X \to E_n\), specifically the Brown-Peterson spectrum \(BP\) or the spectrum \(MU\). There are many inclusions and identities of these algebras by varying the spectrum \(E\), which are much too complicated to be described here.