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Nilpotence and Periodicity in Stable Homotopy Theory describes some major advances made in algebraic topology in recent years, centering on the nilpotence and periodicity theorems, which were conjectured by the author in 1977 and proved by Devinatz, Hopkins, and Smith in 1985. During the last ten years a number of significant advances have been made in homotopy theory, and this book fills a real need for an up-to-date text on that topic. Ravenel's first few chapters are written with a general mathematical audience in mind. They survey both the ideas that lead up to the theorems and their applications to homotopy theory. The book begins with some elementary concepts of homotopy theory that are needed to state the problem. This includes such notions as homotopy, homotopy equivalence, CW-complex, and suspension. Next the machinery of complex cobordism, Morava K-theory, and formal group laws in characteristic p are introduced. The latter portion of the book provides specialists with a coherent and rigorous account of the proofs. It includes hitherto unpublished material on the smash product and chromatic convergence theorems and on modular representations of the symmetric group.

Homotopie --- Homotopy theory --- Homotopy theory. --- Deformations, Continuous --- Topology --- Abelian category. --- Abelian group. --- Adams spectral sequence. --- Additive category. --- Affine space. --- Algebra homomorphism. --- Algebraic closure. --- Algebraic structure. --- Algebraic topology (object). --- Algebraic topology. --- Algebraic variety. --- Algebraically closed field. --- Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence. --- Automorphism. --- Boolean algebra (structure). --- CW complex. --- Canonical map. --- Cantor set. --- Category of topological spaces. --- Category theory. --- Classification theorem. --- Classifying space. --- Cohomology operation. --- Cohomology. --- Cokernel. --- Commutative algebra. --- Commutative ring. --- Complex projective space. --- Complex vector bundle. --- Computation. --- Conjecture. --- Conjugacy class. --- Continuous function. --- Contractible space. --- Coproduct. --- Differentiable manifold. --- Disjoint union. --- Division algebra. --- Equation. --- Explicit formulae (L-function). --- Functor. --- G-module. --- Groupoid. --- Homology (mathematics). --- Homomorphism. --- Homotopy category. --- Homotopy group. --- Homotopy. --- Hopf algebra. --- Hurewicz theorem. --- Inclusion map. --- Infinite product. --- Integer. --- Inverse limit. --- Irreducible representation. --- Isomorphism class. --- K-theory. --- Loop space. --- Mapping cone (homological algebra). --- Mathematical induction. --- Modular representation theory. --- Module (mathematics). --- Monomorphism. --- Moore space. --- Morava K-theory. --- Morphism. --- N-sphere. --- Noetherian ring. --- Noetherian. --- Noncommutative ring. --- Number theory. --- P-adic number. --- Piecewise linear manifold. --- Polynomial ring. --- Polynomial. --- Power series. --- Prime number. --- Principal ideal domain. --- Profinite group. --- Reduced homology. --- Ring (mathematics). --- Ring homomorphism. --- Ring spectrum. --- Simplicial complex. --- Simply connected space. --- Smash product. --- Special case. --- Spectral sequence. --- Steenrod algebra. --- Sub"ient. --- Subalgebra. --- Subcategory. --- Subring. --- Symmetric group. --- Tensor product. --- Theorem. --- Topological space. --- Topology. --- Vector bundle. --- Zariski topology.

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Homotopy groups --- Sphere --- Spectral sequences (Mathematics) --- Cobordism theory

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Edward Witten once said that Elliptic Cohomology was a piece of 21st Century Mathematics that happened to fall into the 20th Century. He also likened our understanding of it to what we know of the topography of an archipelago; the peaks are beautiful and clearly connected to each other, but the exact connections are buried, as yet invisible. This very active subject has connections to algebraic topology, theoretical physics, number theory and algebraic geometry, and all these connections are represented in the sixteen papers in this volume. A variety of distinct perspectives are offered, with topics including equivariant complex elliptic cohomology, the physics of M-theory, the modular characteristics of vertex operator algebras, and higher chromatic analogues of elliptic cohomology. This is the first collection of papers on elliptic cohomology in almost twenty years and gives a broad picture of the state of the art in this important field of mathematics.

Homology theory --- Algebraic topology

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The long-standing Kervaire invariant problem in homotopy theory arose from geometric and differential topology in the 1960s and was quickly recognised as one of the most important problems in the field. In 2009 the authors of this book announced a solution to the problem, which was published to wide acclaim in a landmark Annals of Mathematics paper. The proof is long and involved, using many sophisticated tools of modern (equivariant) stable homotopy theory that are unfamiliar to non-experts. This book presents the proof together with a full development of all the background material to make it accessible to a graduate student with an elementary algebraic topology knowledge. There are explicit examples of constructions used in solving the problem. Also featuring a motivating history of the problem and numerous conceptual and expository improvements on the proof, this is the definitive account of the resolution of the Kervaire invariant problem.

Homotopy theory.