In stable homotopy theory, a branch of mathematics, Morava K-theory is one of a collection of cohomology theories introduced in algebraic topology by Jack Morava in unpublished preprints in the early 1970s. For every prime number p (which is suppressed in the notation), it consists of theories K(n) for each nonnegative integer n, each a ring spectrum in the sense of homotopy theory. Johnson & Wilson (1975) published the first account of the theories.
Details
The theory K(0) agrees with singular homology with rational coefficients, whereas K(1) is a summand of mod-p complex K-theory. The theory K(n) has coefficient ring
- Fpvn,vn−1
where vn has degree 2(pn − 1). In particular, Morava K-theory is periodic with this period, in much the same way that complex K-theory has period 2.
These theories have several remarkable properties.
- They have Künneth isomorphisms for arbitrary pairs of spaces: that is, for X and Y CW complexes, we have
- They are "fields" in the category of ring spectra. In other words every module spectrum over K(n) is free, i.e. a wedge of suspensions of K(n).
- They are complex oriented (at least after being periodified by taking the wedge sum of (pn − 1) shifted copies), and the formal group they define has height n.
- Every finite p-local spectrum X has the property that K(n)∗(X) = 0 if and only if n is less than a certain number N, called the type of the spectrum X. By a theorem of Devinatz– Hopkins–Smith, every thick subcategory of the category of finite p-local spectra is the subcategory of type-n spectra for some n.
See also
References
- Johnson, David Copeland; Wilson, W. Stephen (1975), "BP operations and Morava's extraordinary K-theories.", Math. Z., 144 (1): 55&minus, 75, doi: 10.1007/BF01214408, MR 0377856
- Hovey-Strickland, " Morava K-theory and localisation"
- Ravenel, Douglas C. (1992), Nilpotence and periodicity in stable homotopy theory, Annals of Mathematics Studies, vol. 128, Princeton University Press, MR 1192553
- Würgler, Urs (1991), "Morava K-theories: a survey", Algebraic topology Poznan 1989, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 1474, Berlin: Springer, pp. 111–138, doi: 10.1007/BFb0084741, ISBN 978-3-540-54098-4, MR 1133896
In stable homotopy theory, a branch of mathematics, Morava K-theory is one of a collection of cohomology theories introduced in algebraic topology by Jack Morava in unpublished preprints in the early 1970s. For every prime number p (which is suppressed in the notation), it consists of theories K(n) for each nonnegative integer n, each a ring spectrum in the sense of homotopy theory. Johnson & Wilson (1975) published the first account of the theories.
Details
The theory K(0) agrees with singular homology with rational coefficients, whereas K(1) is a summand of mod-p complex K-theory. The theory K(n) has coefficient ring
- Fpvn,vn−1
where vn has degree 2(pn − 1). In particular, Morava K-theory is periodic with this period, in much the same way that complex K-theory has period 2.
These theories have several remarkable properties.
- They have Künneth isomorphisms for arbitrary pairs of spaces: that is, for X and Y CW complexes, we have
- They are "fields" in the category of ring spectra. In other words every module spectrum over K(n) is free, i.e. a wedge of suspensions of K(n).
- They are complex oriented (at least after being periodified by taking the wedge sum of (pn − 1) shifted copies), and the formal group they define has height n.
- Every finite p-local spectrum X has the property that K(n)∗(X) = 0 if and only if n is less than a certain number N, called the type of the spectrum X. By a theorem of Devinatz– Hopkins–Smith, every thick subcategory of the category of finite p-local spectra is the subcategory of type-n spectra for some n.
See also
References
- Johnson, David Copeland; Wilson, W. Stephen (1975), "BP operations and Morava's extraordinary K-theories.", Math. Z., 144 (1): 55&minus, 75, doi: 10.1007/BF01214408, MR 0377856
- Hovey-Strickland, " Morava K-theory and localisation"
- Ravenel, Douglas C. (1992), Nilpotence and periodicity in stable homotopy theory, Annals of Mathematics Studies, vol. 128, Princeton University Press, MR 1192553
- Würgler, Urs (1991), "Morava K-theories: a survey", Algebraic topology Poznan 1989, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 1474, Berlin: Springer, pp. 111–138, doi: 10.1007/BFb0084741, ISBN 978-3-540-54098-4, MR 1133896