Elliptic Cohomology

by Charles B. Thomas

Book Overview

Elliptic cohomology is an extremely beautiful theory with both geometric and arithmetic aspects. The former is explained by the fact that the theory is a quotient of oriented cobordism localised away from 2, the latter by the fact that the coefficients coincide with a ring of modular forms. The aim of the book is to construct this cohomology theory, and evaluate it on classifying spaces BG of finite groups G. This class of spaces is important, since...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475787588
• ISBN13: 9781475787580
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"