Questions tagged [steenrod-algebra]
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Detailed exposition of construction of Steenrod squares from Haynes Miller's book
$\DeclareMathOperator\Sq{Sq}$Chapter 75 of Haynes Miller's book on algebraic topology contains a beautiful construction of the Steenrod squares $\Sq^i$.
Roughly speaking, it goes as follows. All ...
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Derivations in the Steenrod algebra
Let $\mathcal A^\ast$ be the (mod 2) Steenrod algebra.
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Is there a classification of homogeneous elements $D \in \mathcal A^n$ such that $D^2 = 0$?
Question 2: Is there a classification of ...
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Generalisation of Hirsch formula for the associativity of Steenrod's higher $\cup_2$ product with $\cup_1$ and cup products
For $f$, $g$ and $h$ cochains, the Hirsch formula is given as
$$ (f\cup g)\cup_1 h=f\cup (g\cup_1 h)+(-1)^{q(r-1)}(f\cup_1 h)\cup g.$$
Is there a more general formula that relates the associativity of ...
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Cohomology ring $H^*(\operatorname{SL}(3,\mathbb{Z}),\mathbb{Z}_2)_{(2)}$
$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}$In Soulé's paper "The cohomology of $\SL_3(\mathbb{Z})$" the cohomology ring $H^*(\SL(3,\mathbb{Z}),\mathbb{Z})_{(2)}$ is determined in Theorem 4.iv. I'm wanting ...
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Triviality of Steenrod operation on $\Sigma^{2k}\mathbb{CP}^n$
I was going through this paper by Tanaka. I am actually stuck at Lemma 5.2, page 365, given below also
The argument he gives above works, in particular for $\operatorname{Sq}^{2^r-2^j}$ but I am not ...
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Are all degree-1 cohomology operations Bocksteins?
I'm interested in cohomology operations (in ordinary cohomology)
$$H^i(-, G)\rightarrow H^{i+1}(-, H)\;,$$
that is, elements of
$$H^{i+1}(K(G, i), H)\;.$$
I know that $K(G, 1)=BG$, so for $i=1$, those ...
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Is there a local simplicial formula for the Steenrod squares which commutes with the derivative on cochain level?
There is a well-known formula for the cup product of an $i$-cochain $A$ and $j$-cochain $B$ in simplicial homology given by
$$(A\cup B)(0\ldots i+j) = A(0\ldots i) B(0\ldots j)\;.$$
This formula ...
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Analogue of Bockstein for crossed module extensions and higher Steenrod square
It is well known that in $\mathbb{Z}_2$-valued simplicial cohomology (and other cohomologies)
$$ Sq^1 = \beta\;,$$
where $Sq^1$ is the first Steenrod square and $\beta$ is the Bockstein homomorphism ...
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What is an unstable dual-Steenrod comodule?
$\newcommand\Sq{\mathit{Sq}}$Recall that a (graded) module $V^\ast$ over the Steenrod algebra $\mathcal A^\ast$ is said to be unstable if $\Sq^i v = 0$ for $i > |v|$. The motivating example, of ...
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Over which (graded) rings are all modules decomposable into indecomposables?
A module is decomposable if it is the direct sum of two modules. The process of splitting summands off of a decomposable module does not need to terminate, so infinitely generated modules do not ...
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Eilenberg-Maclane spectrum and $E_{\infty}$-algebra structure on singular cochain complex
I'm trying to understand how the $E_{\infty}$-algebra structure on the singular cochain complex $C^{\bullet}(X)$ of a topological space $X$, in at least somewhat down-to-earth terms. (I'm coming at ...
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Modules over the integral dual Steenrod algebra as linear functors
Let $\text{Latt}$ denote the category of lattices, i.e., finitely generated free abelian groups. In the appendix to Lecture 4 of Condensed.pdf, Scholze considers functors $F \colon \text{Latt} \to \...
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Why does $\iota_4^2 \in H^8(K(\mathbb Z/2,4);\mathbb Z/2)$ not come from $H^8(K(\mathbb Z/2,4);\mathbb Z)$?
In Hatcher's Chapter 5 (https://pi.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/ATch5.pdf) on page 574 (page 57 in the pdf), he states that $\iota_4^2 \in H^8(K(\mathbb Z/2,4);\mathbb Z/2)$ is not in the image of $H^...
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Wall's presentation of the Steenrod algebra
In the paper "Generators and Relations for the Steenrod Algebra" (C. T. C. Wall, Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Nov., 1960), pp. 429-444) Wall shows that there is a ...
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Examples of non-zero negative Steenrod operations
In JP May's paper A general algebraic approach to Steenrod operations, Steenrod operations are constructed in wide generality. In this context, it is not necessarily true that negative Steenrod ...
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