Subject: new Hopf listings Date: 21 Aug 2003 11:33:57 -0400 From: Mark Hovey 4 new papers this time, from Bartels-Reich, Goodwillie (Calc III!), Gorbounov-Malikov, and Kuhn. Mark Hovey New papers appearing on hopf between 7/11/03 and 8/21/03 1. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Bartels-Reich/isoIIhopf Title: On the Farrell-Jones Conjecture for higher algebraic K-theory Authors: Arthur Bartels, Holger Reich e-mail adresses: bartelsa@math.uni-muenster.de, reichh@math.uni-muenster.de arxiv: math.AT/0308030 Abstract: We prove the Farrell-Jones Isomorphism Conjecture about the algebraic K-theory of a group ring RG in the case where the group G is the fundamental group of a closed Riemannian manifold with strictly negative sectional curvature. The coefficient ring R is an arbitrary associative ring with unit and the result applies to all dimensions. 2. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Goodwillie/calculus3 Title: Calculus III, Taylor series Author: Thomas G. Goodwillie Author's e-mail address: tomg@math.brown.edu Abstract: We study functors from spaces to spaces or spectra that preserve weak homotopy equivalences. For each such functor we construct a universal n-excisive approximation, which may be thought of as its n-excisive part. Homogeneous functors, meaning n-excisive functors with trivial (n-1)-excisive part, can be classified: they correspond to symmetric functors of n variables that are 1-excisive in each variable. We discuss some important examples, including the identity functor and Waldhausen's algebraic K-theory. 3. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Gorbounov-Malikov/LG-CY-try Vertex algebras and the Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence Vassily Gorbounov and Fyodor Malikov We construct a spectral sequence that converges to the cohomology of the chiral de Rham complex over a Calabi-Yau hypersurface and whose first term is a vertex algebra closely related to the Landau-Ginburg orbifold. As an application, we prove an explicit orbifold formula for the elliptic genus of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces. 4. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Kuhn/Tate Title: Tate cohomology and periodic localization of polynomial functors Author: Nicholas J. Kuhn AMS classification numbers: Primary 55P65; Secondary 55N22, 55P60, 55P91 Address: Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903 email: njk4x@virginia.edu abstract: In this paper, we show that Goodwillie calculus, as applied to functors from stable homotopy to itself, interacts in striking ways with chromatic aspects of the stable category. Localized at a fixed prime p, let T(n) be the telescope of a v_n self map of a finite S--module of type n. The Periodicity Theorem of Hopkins and Smith implies that the Bousfield localization functor associated to T(n) is independent of choices. Goodwillie's general theory says that to any homotopy functor F from S--modules to S--modules, there is an associated tower under F, {P_dF}, such that F --> P_dF is the universal arrow to a d--excisive functor. Our first theorem says that P_dF --> P_{d-1}F always admits a homotopy section after localization with respect to T(n) (and so also after localization with respect to Morava K--theory K(n)). Thus, after periodic localization, polynomial functors split as the product of their homogeneous factors. This theorem follows from our second theorem which is equivalent to the following: for any finite group G, the Tate spectrum t_G(T(n)) is weakly contractible. This strengthens and extends previous theorems of Greenlees--Sadofsky, Hovey--Sadofsky, and Mahowald--Shick. The Periodicity Theorem is used in an essential way in our proof. The connection between the two theorems is via a reformulation of a result of McCarthy on dual calculus. ---------------------Instructions----------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe to this list, send a message to Don Davis at dmd1@lehigh.edu with your e-mail address and name. Please make sure he is using the correct e-mail address for you. To see past issues of this mailing list, point your WWW browser to http://math.wesleyan.edu/~mhovey/archive/ If this doesn't work or is missing a few issues, try http://www.lehigh.edu/~dmd1/algtop.html which also has the other messages sent to Don's list. To get the papers listed above, point your Web browser to the URL listed. The general Hopf archive URL is http://hopf.math.purdue.edu There is a web form for submitting papers to Hopf on this site as well. You can also use ftp, explained below. The largest archive of math preprints is at http://xxx.lanl.gov There is an algebraic topology section in this archive. 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