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Algebraic K-theory of rings from a topological viewpoint.

Dominique Arlettaz (2000)

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Because of its strong interaction with almost every part of pure mathematics, algebraic K-theory has had a spectacular development since its origin in the late fifties. The objective of this paper is to provide the basic definitions of the algebraic K-theory of rings and an overview of the main classical theorems. Since the algebraic K-groups of a ring R are the homotopy groups of a topological space associated with the general linear group over R, it is obvious that many general results...

Evaluating a p-th order cohomology operation.

J. Harper, A. Zabrodsky (1988)

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A certain p-th order cup product is detected by a p-th order cohomology operation. The result is applied to finite H-spaces, to show that several properties of compact Lie groups do not hold for arbitrary torsion free finite H-spaces.

An introduction to algebraic K-theory

Ausoni, Christian

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This paper gives an exposition of algebraic K-theory, which studies functors K n : Rings → Abelian Groups , n an integer. Classically n = 0 , 1 introduced by Bass in the mid 60’s (based on ideas of Grothendieck and others) and n = 2 introduced by Milnor [Introduction to algebraic K-theory, Annals of Math. Studies, 72, Princeton University Press, 1971: Zbl 0237.18005]. These functors are defined and applications to topological K-theory (Swan), number theory, topology and geometry (the Wall finiteness obstruction to a CW-complex...