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Complex-oriented cohomology theories and formal groups

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Speaker: 
Luuk Stehouwer
Affiliation: 
MPIM
Date: 
Tue, 13/12/2022 - 12:15 - 13:45
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Hybrid. Contact: Christian Kaiser (kaiser@mpim-bonn.mpg.de)

After reviewing some basics about spectra, I will show how certain cohomology theories give rise to 1-dimensional formal group laws. This is the foundational idea of the mathematical field called chromatic homotopy theory. I will provide ordinary cohomology, K-theory and bordism as examples.

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