Algebra/Topology Seminar

Algebra/Topology Seminar

Speaker: Mingcong Zeng (Utrecht University)

Title: Dual Steenrod algebra, real cobordism and Morava E-theories
Abstract: 
In chromatic homotopy theory, Morava E-theories with the action of Morava stabilizer groups play a fundamental role. But computing them, especially in height > 2 is difficult, mainly because of the following reasons:
1. The group action is complicated and there is no clean formula.
2. There is no easy geometric models in height > 2 compatible with the group action.

In this talk, we will investigate the case when p = 2 and the acting group is a cyclic 2-group and attempt to give answers to the above problems for all heights. I will construct Morava E-theories equivariantly from the real cobordism spectrum, and how these theories are deeply related to dual Steenrod algebra and its generalizations via the equivariant slice filtration of Hill-Hopkins-Ravenel.

This is joint work with Agnes Beaudry, Lennart Meier and Danny Xiaolin Shi.