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Parametrized spectra, multiplicative Thom spectra and the twisted Umkehr map

### Matthew Ando, Andrew J Blumberg and David Gepner

Geometry & Topology 22 (2018) 3761–3825
##### Abstract

We introduce a general theory of parametrized objects in the setting of $ß$–categories. Although parametrised spaces and spectra are the most familiar examples, we establish our theory in the generality of families of objects of a presentable $\infty$–category parametrized over objects of an $\infty$–topos. We obtain a coherent functor formalism describing the relationship of the various adjoint functors associated to base-change and symmetric monoidal structures.

Our main applications are to the study of generalized Thom spectra. We obtain fiberwise constructions of twisted Umkehr maps for twisted generalized cohomology theories using a geometric fiberwise construction of Atiyah duality. In order to characterize the algebraic structures on generalized Thom spectra and twisted (co)homology, we express the generalized Thom spectrum as a categorification of the well-known adjunction between units and group rings.

##### Keywords
Thom spectrum, parametrized spectra, twisted Umkehr map
##### Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 55P99, 55R70
##### Publication
Received: 27 March 2015
Revised: 25 May 2017
Accepted: 20 July 2017
Published: 6 December 2018
Proposed: Mark Behrens
Seconded: Ralph Cohen, Peter Teichner
##### Authors
 Matthew Ando Department of Mathematics The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL United States Andrew J Blumberg Department of Mathematics University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX United States David Gepner Department of Mathematics Purdue University West Lafayette, IN United States