A Cellular Construction of BP and Other Irreducible Spectra.
The -fold product of an arbitrary space usually supports only the obvious permutation action of the symmetric group . However, if is a -complete, homotopy associative, homotopy commutative -space one can define a homotopy action of on . In various cases, e.g. if multiplication by is null homotopic then we get a homotopy action of for some . After one suspension this allows one to split using idempotents of which can be lifted to . In fact all of this is possible if is an -space...
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