Unstable algebras over an operad

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Abstract: The aim of this article is to define and study a notion of unstable algebra over an operad that generalises the classical notion of unstable algebra over the Steenrod algebra. For this study we focus on the case of characteristic 2. We define star-unstable mathcalP-algebras, where mathcalP is an operad and star is a commutative binary operation in mathcalP. We then build a functor that takes an unstable module M to the free star-unstable mathcalP-algebra generated by M. Under some hypotheses on star and on M, we identify this unstable algebra as a free mathcalP-algebra. Finally, we give some examples of this result, and we show how to use our main theorem to obtain a new construction of the unstable modules studied by Carlsson, Brown-Gitler, and Campbell-Selick, that takes into account their internal product.











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