#### Volume 5, issue 4 (2005)

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$I$–adic towers in topology

### Samuel Wüthrich

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 5 (2005) 1589–1635
 arXiv: math.AT/0411409
##### Abstract

A large variety of cohomology theories is derived from complex cobordism $M{U}^{\ast }\left(-\right)$ by localizing with respect to certain elements or by killing regular sequences in $M{U}_{\ast }$. We study the relationship between certain pairs of such theories which differ by a regular sequence, by constructing topological analogues of algebraic $I$–adic towers. These give rise to Higher Bockstein spectral sequences, which turn out to be Adams spectral sequences in an appropriate sense. Particular attention is paid to the case of completed Johnson–Wilson theory $Ê\left(n\right)$ and Morava $K$–theory $K\left(n\right)$ for a given prime $p$.

##### Keywords
structured ring spectra, Adams resolution, Adams spectral sequence, Bockstein operation, complex cobordism, Morava $K$–theory, Bousfield localization, stable homotopy theory.
##### Mathematical Subject Classification 2000
Primary: 55P42, 55P43, 55T15
Secondary: 55U20, 55P60, 55N22