Geometry & Topology Monographs 16 (2009) 283–330

DOI: 10.2140/gtm.2009.16.283

arXiv: 0903.2818

Abstract

The construction of E_∞ ring spaces and thus E_∞ ring spectra from bipermutative categories gives the most highly structured way of obtaining the K–theory commutative ring spectra. The original construction dates from around 1980 and has never been superseded, but the original details are difficult, obscure, and slightly wrong. We rework the construction in a much more elementary fashion.

Keywords

bipermutative category, E_∞ ring space, E_∞ space, permutative category, symmetric monoidal category, symmetric bimonoidal category

Mathematical Subject Classification

Primary: 18C20, 18D10, 18D50, 19D23, 55P48

References

Publication

Received: 14 September 2008
Accepted: 14 January 2009
Published: 25 June 2009

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