Timeline for Proofs of Bott periodicity
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| Jul 15, 2011 at 18:00 | comment | added | Dan Ramras | I finally got a copy of Suslin's paper. As far as I can tell, his argument is the same as Bruno Harris's proof (mentioned elsewhere on this page); Suslin just says it much more quickly and doesn't explicitly mention the use of the group completion theorem, which is needed to identify $\Omega B(\coprod BU(n))$ with $\mathbb{Z} \times$ colim $BU(n)$. | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 4:57 | comment | added | Dan Ramras | Is this any different from Bruno Harris's proof, which uses the group completion theorem? Does Suslin get real Bott periodicity this way? That would be pretty amazing (especially in two pages, whose main purpose seems to be proving something else!). Harris only does the complex case. | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 17:32 | history | answered | Marco Schlichting | CC BY-SA 3.0 |