Timeline for Formal Group Laws on Ring Spectra?
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| Jan 24, 2012 at 20:40 | comment | added | Jonathan Beardsley | I think really what I'm interested in, and this is something I asked Tyler about in Boston, is whether or not you can just define a formal group law ON a general ring spectrum, i.e. without elements. I don't really know enough yet to be able to talk about this, but I'm not talking about complex orientations. | |
| Dec 31, 2011 at 23:25 | comment | added | Tyler Lawson | @JonB: Yes, the existence of such a ring map is sufficient to show that E is homotopy equivalent to a coproduct of suspensions of Eilenberg-Mac Lane spectra (i.e. a generalized E-M spectrum). | |
| Dec 31, 2011 at 21:50 | comment | added | Jonathan Beardsley | The existence of a map from HL to E is sufficient to say that E is an EM spectrum? | |
| Dec 31, 2011 at 20:33 | history | answered | Sean Tilson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |