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The stable Adams operations on Hermitian $K$-theory

Jean Fasel and Olivier Haution

Geometry & Topology 29 (2025) 127–169
DOI: 10.2140/gt.2025.29.127
Abstract

We prove that exterior powers of (skew-)symmetric bundles induce a λ-ring structure on the ring GW 0(X) GW 2(X), when X is a scheme where 2 is invertible. Using this structure, we define stable Adams operations on Hermitian K-theory. As a byproduct of our methods, we also compute the ternary laws associated to Hermitian K-theory.

Keywords
Hermitian K-theory, Grothendieck–Witt groups, Adams operations, $lambda$-rings
Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 14C35, 14F42, 19E15
References
Publication
Received: 2 February 2022
Revised: 8 September 2023
Accepted: 7 December 2023
Published: 1 January 2025
Proposed: Stefan Schwede
Seconded: Haynes R Miller, Marc Levine
Authors
Jean Fasel
Institut Fourier - UMR 5582
Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS
Grenoble
France
https://www-fourier.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/~faselj/
Olivier Haution
Mathematisches Institut
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
München
Germany
Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Milano
Italy
https://haution.gitlab.io/

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