2018
DOI: 10.4007/annals.2018.188.2.3
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Secondary power operations and the Brown--Peterson spectrum at the prime 2

Abstract: The dual Steenrod algebra has a canonical subalgebra isomorphic to the homology of the Brown-Peterson spectrum. We will construct a secondary operation in mod-2 homology and show that this canonical subalgebra is not closed under it. This allows us to conclude that the 2-primary Brown-Peterson spectrum does not admit the structure of an E n -algebra for any n ≥ 12, answering a question of May in the negative.

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“…Remark 6.22. By a result of Basterra and Mandell [BM13], BP admits the structure of an E 4 -ring spectrum, but Lawson [Law17] proved recently that BP does not admit the structure of an E 12 -ring spectrum at the prime 2. Consequently, the stable ∞-category Mod BP of BP -module spectra is only known to be E 3 -monoidal, hence is not a stable category as defined in Section 2.…”
Section: Local Duality In Stable Homotopy Theorymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Remark 6.22. By a result of Basterra and Mandell [BM13], BP admits the structure of an E 4 -ring spectrum, but Lawson [Law17] proved recently that BP does not admit the structure of an E 12 -ring spectrum at the prime 2. Consequently, the stable ∞-category Mod BP of BP -module spectra is only known to be E 3 -monoidal, hence is not a stable category as defined in Section 2.…”
Section: Local Duality In Stable Homotopy Theorymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Remark The proof essentially says that the E structure on MUP extends the classical H2 structure on MU [8, Corollary VIII.5.3]. In the language of [14, Problem 1.3.7], the map prefixdouble-struckZprefix Pic (MU) defining MUP refines the H2 structure on MU to an E2 structure.…”
Section: Preliminariesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While this gives a rough description of the main result of [Law17], and the size of this relation provides some mild amusement value, most people who see this relation are inclined to ask where on earth it came from. There are no obvious indications why we should focus attention on this particular secondary operation.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%