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Brown–Peterson cohomology from Morava $E$ -theory

Part of: Fiber spaces and bundles Homology and cohomology theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2017

Tobias Barthel  and
Nathaniel Stapleton
Tobias Barthel
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Køpenhavn Ø, Denmark email tbarthel@math.ku.dk
Nathaniel Stapleton
Affiliation:
Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany email nat.j.stapleton@gmail.com
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Abstract

We prove that the $p$ -completed Brown–Peterson spectrum is a retract of a product of Morava $E$ -theory spectra. As a consequence, we generalize results of Kashiwabara and of Ravenel, Wilson and Yagita from spaces to spectra and deduce that the notion of a good group is determined by Brown–Peterson cohomology. Furthermore, we show that rational factorizations of the Morava $E$ -theory of certain finite groups hold integrally up to bounded torsion with height-independent exponent, thereby lifting these factorizations to the rationalized Brown–Peterson cohomology of such groups.

Keywords

Brown–Peterson spectrumMorava E-theorytranschromatic character theory

MSC classification

Primary: 55N20: Generalized (extraordinary) homology and cohomology theories
Secondary: 55N22: Bordism and cobordism theories, formal group laws 55R40: Homology of classifying spaces, characteristic classes

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Compositio Mathematica , Volume 153 , Issue 4 , April 2017 , pp. 780 - 819
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© The Authors 2017 

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