Completed representation ring spectra of nilpotent groups

dc.creatorLawson, Tyler
dc.date2009-02-27
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:47:37Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:47:37Z
dc.descriptionIn this paper, we examine the `derived completion' of the representation ring of a pro-p group G_p^ with respect to an augmentation ideal. This completion is no longer a ring: it is a spectrum with the structure of a module spectrum over the Eilenberg-MacLane spectrum HZ, and can have higher homotopy information. In order to explain the origin of some of these higher homotopy classes, we define a deformation representation ring functor R[-] from groups to ring spectra, and show that the map R[G_p^] --> R[G] becomes an equivalence after completion when G is finitely generated nilpotent. As an application, we compute the derived completion of the representation ring of the simplest nontrivial case, the p-adic Heisenberg group.
dc.descriptionThis is the version published by Algebraic & Geometric Topology on 26 February 2006
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0902.4867
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0902.4867
dc.identifierAlgebr. Geom. Topol. 6 (2006) 253-285
dc.identifierdoi:10.2140/agt.2006.6.253
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/221782
dc.subjectAlgebraic Topology
dc.subjectGroup Theory
dc.subject55P60, 19A22, 55P43
dc.titleCompleted representation ring spectra of nilpotent groups
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