The Hatcher-Waldhausen map is a spectrum map

DOI10.1007/BF01459797MaRDI QIDQ1337520zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Rognes

Publication date 9 November 1994

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/165221

zbMATH Keywords

Hatcher-Waldhausen mapinfinite loop spacepseudoisotopyspectrum mapstable concordanceWhitehead spaceétale \(K\)-theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic (K)-theory of spaces (19D10) Computations of higher (K)-theory of rings (19D50) (J)-homomorphism, Adams operations (19L20) Stable homotopy theory, spectra (55P42) (K)-theory operations and generalized cohomology operations in algebraic topology (55S25)

Review text

We prove that the map \(G/O\to \Omega W h^{\text{Diff}}(*)\) which was constructed by Waldhausen and proved to be a rational equivalence by Bökstedt, is in fact an infinite loop map if we use a multiplicative infinite loop space structure on the target. Here \(G/O\) is the homotopy fiber of the \(j\)-homomorphism \(BO\to BG\), and \(Wh^{\text{Diff}} (*)\) is the differentiable Whitehead space of a point, which is a double delooping of the stable concordance (pseudoisotopy) space of a point. As an application we investigate the obstruction to improving Bökstedt's two-primary results on splitting the étale \(K\)-theory space \(JK(\mathbb{Z})\) off from \(K(\mathbb{Z})\), to the unlooped space or spectrum level. In particular, if the usual map \(Q(S^ 0)\to K(\mathbb{Z})\) from stable homotopy to the algebraic \(K\)-theory of the integers factors through the image of \(J\)-spectrum as a spectrum map, such a spectrum level splitting exists. Note that S. A. Mitchell has proved the analogous space level factorization.

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3947244
• Two-primary algebraic K-theory of pointed spaces
• Trace and transfer maps in the algebraic K-theory of spaces
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4009347
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3958257

Cites work

• \(E_\infty\) ring spaces and \(E_\infty\) ring spectra. With contributions by Frank Quinn, Nigel Ray, and Jorgen Tornehave
• A generalization of the homology and homotopy suspension
• Characterizing connected K-theory by homotopy groups
• Etale Homotopy of Simplicial Schemes. (AM-104)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 65615 (Why is no real title available?)
• Infinite loop maps from SF to BO at the prime 2
• Infinite loop maps in geometric topology
• Infinite Loop Spaces (AM-90)
• Morse Theory. (AM-51)
• The K-theory of Eilenberg-MacLane complexes
• The cyclotomic trace and algebraic K-theory of spaces
• The K-theory of some more well-known spaces
• The Morava K-theory of algebraic K-theory spectra
• Uniqueness of BSO

Cited in

(6)

• Algebraic \(K\)-theory of the two-adic integers
• Brauer groups for commutative \(S\)-algebras
• Homotopy-theoretically enriched categories of noncommutative motives
• The nilpotence theorem for the algebraic \(K\)-theory of the sphere spectrum
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3947244 (Why is no real title available?)
• Generating functions in \(\mathbb{R}^{2n}\) and the Hatcher-Waldhausen map

This page was built for publication: The Hatcher-Waldhausen map is a spectrum map

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1337520)