The omega spectrum for Pengelley's BoP

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Abstract: We compute the homology of the spaces in the Omega spectrum for BoP. There is no torsion in H∗(underlineBoP;i) for ige2, and things are only slightly more complicated for i<2. We find the complete homotopy type of underlineBoP;i for ile6 and conjecture the homotopy type for i>6. This completes the computation of all H∗(underlineMSU;∗).


There are several (co)bordism theories: unoriented \(MO\), oriented \(MSO\), Spin \(MSpin\), complex \(MU\) and special unitary \(MSU\). Any of these theories have an associated \(\Omega\)-spectrum \(M=\{ \underline{M}_k\}\) with \(\Omega \underline{M}_{k+1}=\underline{M}_k\) that classifies them: \(M^k(X)=[X,\underline{M}_k]\). All the theories and spectra in this paper are localized at the prime \(p=2\). There has been a lot of work on understanding the stable homotopy type of a cobordism theory \(M\) as well as the homology of \(\underline{M}_k\) for \(k\geq0\). In this paper the author is concerned with the special unitary cobordism theory \(MSU\). \textit{D.J. Pengelley} [Am. J. Math. 104, 1101--1123 (1982; Zbl 0508.55007)] showed that \(MSU\) splits stably as a product of copies of the Brown-Peterson spectrum \(BP\) and copies of another spectrum denoted \(BoP\). In this paper the author computes the homology of \(\underline{BoP}_i\) and shows that there is no torsion if \(i\geq 2\). The author also describes the unstable homotopy type of \(\underline{BoP}_i\) for \(i\leq 6\) and states a conjecture for \(i>6\).











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