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Why not a Stacks project for Homotopy Theory?
The lack of resources bridging the gap between what one finds in Hatcher's algebraic topology text and modern research on homotopy theory has been brought several times before on MathOverflow [1, 2, 3]...
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Morava K-theories for dummies?
Professor Urs Würgler passed away one year ago, and his wife engraved his tombstone with "the formula he was the most proud of" :
$B(n)_*(X)\cong P(n)_*(K(n))\square_{\Sigma_n}K(n)_*(X)$
However ...
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Why do homotopy theorists care whether or not $BP$ is $E_\infty$?
I have often heard that it is not known whether or not the Brown-Peterson spectrum $BP$ is an $E_\infty$-ring spectrum. Though I see that this is a somewhat natural question to ask, I have often ...
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Is it possible to define a perverse $t$-structure for a certain triangulated category of sheaves of spectra?
The perverse t-structure for the derived category of complexes of sheaves is certainly a mighty tool for studying cohomology. My question is: does there exist any homotopy-theoretic analogue for it (...