Adjoining roots to ring spectra and algebraic K-theory

Abstract: The category of spectra captures an important part of the complexity of topological spaces while providing generalizations of many important notions in homological algebra.

In this work, we develop a new method to adjoin roots to ring spectra and show that this process results in interesting splittings in algebraic K-theory.

In the first part of my talk, I will provide motivation for algebraic K-theory and highly structured ring spectra. After this, I will discuss trace methods, a program that provides computational tools for algebraic K-theory, and introduce our results.

This is a joint work in progress with Tasos Moulinos and Christian Ausoni.

algebraic topology

Audience: general audience

Mimar Sinan University Mathematics Seminars