Timeline for A question about the topological proofs of Bott periodicity
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| Jan 2, 2012 at 1:46 | answer | added | Peter May | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jan 28, 2011 at 14:13 | comment | added | Sean Tilson | as you noticed, I obviously meant $H_*(\Omega SU)$. | |
| Jan 28, 2011 at 10:39 | history | edited | Johannes Ebert | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 28, 2011 at 9:09 | comment | added | Johannes Ebert | The LSSS for the fibration $\Omega SU(n) \Omega SU(n+1) \to \Omega S {2n+1}$ is a spectral seqeunce of $H_* (\Omega SU(n))$-modules. By induction and the knowledge of $H_* (\Omega S^{2n+1})$, one proves that $H_*(\Omega SU(n+1)) is a polynomial ring in $n$ variables. | |
| Jan 28, 2011 at 2:56 | comment | added | Sean Tilson | How are you computing $H_*(BU)$ and $H_*(SU)$? If you are using the Serre SS isn't the differential still a derivation? or is this still not enough to tell you about the Pontrjagin product? Great question by the way. | |
| Jan 27, 2011 at 23:26 | history | asked | Johannes Ebert | CC BY-SA 2.5 |