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arxiv: 0810.5032 · v2 · pith:6JLZ3SNRnew · submitted 2008-10-28 · 🧮 math.AT

Uniqueness of Morava K-theory

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keywords spectrumk-theorymoravas-algebrastructuresuniquenessa-infinityalgebra
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We show that there is an essentially unique S-algebra structure on the Morava K-theory spectrum K(n), while K(n) has uncountably many MU or \hE{n}-algebra structures. Here \hE{n} is the K(n)-localized Johnson-Wilson spectrum. To prove this we set up a spectral sequence computing the homotopy groups of the moduli space of A-infinity structures on a spectrum, and use the theory of S-algebra k-invariants for connective S-algebras due to Dugger and Shipley to show that all the uniqueness obstructions are hit by differentials.

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