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arxiv: 0810.2585 · v1 · submitted 2008-10-15 · 🧮 math.AT

The spectra ko and ku are not Thom spectra: an approach using THH

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We apply an announced result of Blumberg-Cohen-Schlichtkrull to reprove (under restricted hypotheses) a theorem of Mahowald: the connective real and complex K-theory spectra are not Thom spectra.

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