Spectra of units for periodic ring spectra and group completion of graded E∞ spaces

Sagave, Steffen

doi:10.2140/agt.2016.16.1203

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Spectra of units for periodic ring spectra and group completion of graded $E_{\infty}$ spaces

Steffen Sagave

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 16 (2016) 1203–1251

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2016.16.1203

Abstract

We construct a new spectrum of units for a commutative symmetric ring spectrum that detects the difference between a periodic ring spectrum and its connective cover. It is augmented over the sphere spectrum. The homotopy cofiber of its augmentation map is a non-connected delooping of the usual spectrum of units whose bottom homotopy group detects periodicity.

Our approach builds on the graded variant of $E_{\infty}$ spaces introduced in joint work with Christian Schlichtkrull. We construct a group completion model structure for graded $E_{\infty}$ spaces and use it to exhibit our spectrum of units functor as a right adjoint on the level of homotopy categories. The resulting group completion functor is an essential tool for studying ring spectra with graded logarithmic structures.

Keywords

E-infinity space, symmetric spectrum, group completion, units of ring spectra, Gamma-space

Mathematical Subject Classification 2010

Primary: 55P43

Secondary: 55P48

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Received: 26 June 2015

Revised: 11 July 2015

Accepted: 13 July 2015

Published: 26 April 2016

Authors

Steffen Sagave
Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics Radboud University Nijmegen PO Box 9010 6500 GL Nijmegen The Netherlands
http://www.math.ru.nl/~sagave/

Volume 16, issue 2 (2016)