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John Rognes
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28 votes

Does Milnor K-Theory arise from Waldhausen K-Theory

27 votes

Motivation/interpretation for Quillen's Q-construction?

21 votes

Third differential in Atiyah Hirzebruch spectral sequence

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Integral cohomology (stable) operations

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Is this an instance of the snake lemma?

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Realizing $\mathcal{A}(2)//\mathcal{A}(1)$ by a finite spectrum

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Open subspaces of CW complexes

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Is the cohomology ring $H^*(BG,\mathbb{Z})$ generated by Euler classes?

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$p$-adic Bott periodicity?

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Why the sphere spectrum is more correct than $\mathbb{Z}$?

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Who discovered this definition of Stiefel-Whitney classes?

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Differentials in the Adams Spectral Sequence for spheres at the prime p=2

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Categorification of determinant

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Are all degree-1 cohomology operations Bocksteins?

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Is there a simple relationship between K-theory and Galois theory?

15 votes

What is π_1(BG) for an arbitrary topological group $G$?

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The "right" topological spaces

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What are some good examples of spectral sequences which degenerate after the first nontrivial differential?

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Derivations in the Steenrod algebra

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Morava on Shafarevich conjecture

12 votes

A question about cohomology of the classifying spaces of compact groups

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What's the sufficient or necessary conditions for a manifold to have Lie group structure?

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Vietoris-Begle theorem for simplicial sets

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Is every field the residue field of a discretely valued field of characteristic 0?

10 votes

A question about Poincare duality

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Multiplicative structure on spectral sequence

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What is the relation between the sphere spectrum and supersymmetry?

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Group of units of a ring spectrum vs of its connective cover

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number of subdivisions needed to compare simplicial sets to simplicial complexes?

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Alternate proofs of homotopy excision theorem