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Arbeitsgemeinschaft mit aktuellem Thema: Modern Foundations for Stable Homotopy Theory
John Rognes[1] and Stefan Schwede[2] (1) University of Oslo, Norway(2) Universität Bonn, Germany
Stable homotopy theory started out as the study of generalized
cohomology theories for topological spaces, in the incarnation of the
stable homotopy category of spectra. In recent years, an important
new direction became the {\em spectral algebra} or {\em stable
homotopical algebra} over structured ring spectra. Homotopy
theorists have come up with a whole new world of `rings' which are
invisible to the eyes of algebraists, since they cannot be defined or
constructed without the use of topology; indeed, in these `rings', the
laws of associativity, commutativity or distributivity only hold up to
an infinite sequence of coherence relations. The initial `ring' is no
longer the ring of integers, but the {\em sphere spectrum} of
algebraic topology; the `modules' over the sphere spectrum define the
stable homotopy category. Although ring spectra go beyond algebra,
the classical algebraic world is properly contained in stable
homotopical algebra. Indeed, via Eilenberg-Mac Lane spectra, classical
algebra embeds into stable homotopy theory, and ordinary rings form a
full subcategory of the homotopy category of ring spectra. Topology
interpolates algebra in various ways, and when rationalized, stable
homotopy theory tends to become purely algebraic, but integrally it
contains interesting torsion information.
There are plenty of applications of structured ring spectra and
spectral algebra within homotopy theory, and in recent years,
these concepts have started to appear in other areas of mathematics
(we will sketch connections to algebraic $K$-theory and arithmetic, and
to algebraic geometry via motivic homotopy theory and
derived algebraic geometry).
After this general introduction, we now want to give some history and
more background and point out some areas where structured ring spectrum
methods have been used for calculations, theorems or constructions.
Several of the following topics were taken up in the talks of this AG.
{\bf Some history.}
A crucial prerequisite for spectral algebra is an
associative and commutative smash product on a good point-set level
category of spectra, which lifts the well-known smash product pairing
on the {\em homotopy category}. To illustrate the drastic
simplification that occurred in the foundations in the mid-90s, let us
draw an analogy with the algebraic context. Let $R$ be a commutative
ring and imagine for a moment that the notion of a chain complex (of
$R$-modules) has not been discovered, but nevertheless various
complicated constructions of the unbounded derived category $\Dc(R)$
of the ring $R$ exist. Moreover, constructions of the {\em derived}
tensor product on the {\em derived} category exist, but they are
complicated and the proof that the derived tensor product is
associative and commutative occupies 30~pages. In this situation, you
could talk about objects $A$ in the derived category together with
morphisms $A\otimes_R^L A\to A$, in the derived category, which are
associative and unital, and possibly commutative, again in the derived
category. This notion may be useful for some purposes, but it suffers
from many defects -- as one example, the category of modules (under
derived tensor product in the derived category), does not in general
form a triangulated category.
Now imagine that someone proposes the definition of a chain complex
of $R$-modules and shows that by formally inverting the quasi-isomorphisms,
one can construct the derived category. She also defines
the tensor product of chain complexes and proves that tensoring with
a bounded below (in homological terms)
complex of projective modules preserves quasi-isomorphisms.
It immediately follows that the tensor product descends to an
associative and commutative product on the derived category.
What is even better, now one can suddenly consider differential
graded algebras, a `rigidified' version of the crude multiplication
`up-to-chain homotopy'. We would quickly discover that this notion is
much more powerful and that differential graded algebras arise
all over the place (while chain complexes with a multiplication
which is merely associative up to chain homotopy seldom come up in nature).
Fortunately, this is not the historical course of development in
homological algebra, but the development in stable homotopy theory
was, in several aspects, as indicated above.
The first construction of what is now called
`the stable homotopy category', including its symmetric monoidal
smash product, is due to Boardman (unpublished);
accounts of Boardman's construction appear in~\cite{vogt-aarhus}
and~\cite[Part~III]{adams-generalized} (Adams has to devote more than
30~pages to the construction and formal properties of the smash product).
With this category, one could consider ring spectra `up to homotopy',
which are closely related to multiplicative cohomology theories.
However, the need and usefulness of ring spectra with rigidified
multiplications soon became apparent, and topologists developed different
ways of dealing with them.
One line of approach used operads for the bookkeeping
of the homotopies which encode all higher forms of associativity and
commutativity, and this led to the notions of $A_\infty$- respectively
$E_\infty$-ring spectra. Various notions of point-set level ring spectra
had been used (which were only later recognized as the
monoids in a symmetric monoidal model category).
For example, the orthogonal ring spectra had appeared as
{\em $\mathscr I_*$-prefunctors} in~\cite{may-quinn-ray},
the {\em functors with smash product}
were introduced in~\cite{Boek:THH} and symmetric ring
spectra appeared as {\em strictly associative ring spectra}
in~\cite[Def.~6.1]{gunnarsson-monads} or as {\em FSPs defined on spheres}
in~\cite[2.7]{HM:Witt}.
At this point it had become clear that many technicalities
could be avoided if one had a smash product on a good point-set category
of spectra which was associative and unital {\em before}
passage to the homotopy category.
For a long time no such category was known,
and there was even evidence that it might not exist \cite{Lewis}.
In retrospect, the modern spectra categories could maybe have been found
earlier if Quillen's formalism of {\em model categories}~\cite{Q,hovey-book}
had been taken more seriously; from the model category perspective, one
should not expect an intrinsically `left adjoint' construction
like a smash product to have good homotopical behavior in general,
and along with the search for a smash product, one should look
for a compatible notion of cofibrations.
In the mid-90s, several categories of spectra
with nice smash products were discovered, and simultaneously,
model categories experienced a major renaissance. Around 1993,
Elmendorf, Kriz, Mandell and May introduced the
{\em $S$-modules}~\cite{EKMM}
and Jeff Smith gave the first talks
about {\em symmetric spectra}; the details of the model structure
were later worked out and written up by Hovey, Shipley and Smith~\cite{HSS}.
In 1995, Lydakis~\cite{lydakis-gamma}
independently discovered and studied the smash product for
$\Gamma$-spaces (in the sense of Segal~\cite{segal-cat coho}),
and a little later he developed model structures and smash product
for {\em simplicial functors}~\cite{lydakis-simplicial}.
Except for the $S$-modules of Elmendorf, Kriz, Mandell and May,
all other known models for spectra with nice smash product
have a very similar flavor; they all arise as categories of continuous,
space-valued functors from a symmetric monoidal indexing category,
and the smash product is a convolution product (defined as a left
Kan extension), which had much earlier been studied by
category theorist Day~\cite{day-closed}. This unifying context
was made explicit by Mandell, May, Schwede and Shipley in~\cite{MMSS},
where another example, the {\em orthogonal spectra} was first worked out
in detail.
The different approaches to spectra categories with smash product
have been generalized and adapted to equivariant
homotopy theory~\cite{DRO I, mandell-equivariant symmetric, mandell-may}
and motivic homotopy theory~\cite{DRO II, Hu, jardine-motivic symmetric}.
In this AG we will present these various setups
with an emphasis on symmetric spectra.
{\bf Algebra versus homotopy theory.}
Many constructions and invariants for classical rings have counterparts
for structured ring spectra.
These ring spectra have well behaved module categories;
algebraic $K$-theory, Hochschild homology and
Andr\'e-Quillen homology admit refinements;
classical constructions such as localization, group rings, matrix rings,
Morita theory and Galois theory carry over, suitably adapted.
This export of concepts from algebra to topology
illuminates both fields. For example, Dwyer, Greenlees,
and Iyengar~\cite{dwyer-greenlees-iyengar} have
shown that Gorenstein duality, Poincar\'e duality, and Gross-Hopkins
duality become results of a single point of view. Morita theory
for ring
spectra~\cite{baker-lazarev, schwede-shipley-modules, schwede-morita}
gives a new perspective at {\em tilting theory}.
The extension of Galois theory to ring spectra~\cite{rognes-Galois}
has genuinely new kinds of examples given by classical and higher forms
of real topological $K$-theory.
Certain algebraic extensions of commutative rings
can be lifted to the sphere spectrum; for example, roots of unity
can be adjoined to $E_\infty$-ring spectra away
from ramification~\cite{SVW}. Some algebraic notions, for example the units
or the center of a ring, are more subtle, and their generalizations
to ring spectra show richer features than the classical counterparts.
{\bf Power operations.}
Recognizing a multiplicative cohomology theory as an $E_\infty$-ring spectrum
leads to additional structure which can be a
powerful theoretical and calculational tool.
We want to illustrate this by the example of the
Adams spectral sequence~\cite[III.15]{adams-generalized},
\cite[II.9]{mccleary}, \cite[Ch.~19]{switzer}, a tool which has been used
extensively for calculations of stable homotopy groups.
In its most classical instance, the Adams spectral sequence converges
to the $p$-completed stable homotopy groups of spheres and takes the form
$$ E_2^{s,t}\ = \ \Ext^{s,t}_{\mathcal A_p}(\mF_p,\mF_p)\ \Longrightarrow \
(\pi^{\rm stable}_{t-s}S^0)_p^{\wedge\ } \ .$$
The $E_2$-term is given by Ext-groups over the Steenrod algebra
$\mathcal A_p$ of stable mod-$p$ cohomology operations.
This spectral sequence neatly separates the problem of
calculating homotopy groups
into an algebraic and a purely homotopy theoretic part.
The Steenrod algebra has various explicit descriptions and the $E_2$-term
can be calculated mechanically. In fact, computer calculations
have been pushed up to the range
$t-s\leq 210$ (for $p=2$)~\cite{bruner-charts, nassau charts}.
The 1-line is given by the primitive elements in the dual Steenrod algebra,
which for $p=2$ are classes $h_i\in\Ext^{1,2^i}_{\mathcal A_2}(\mF_2,\mF_2)$
for $i\geq 0$.
The first few classes $h_0, h_1, h_2$ and $h_3$ are infinite cycles and
they detect the Hopf maps $2\iota, \eta, \nu$ and $\sigma$; the Hopf maps
arise from the division algebra structures on $\mR$, $\mC$,
the quaternions and the Cayley numbers.
On the other hand, identifying differentials and extensions
in the Adams spectral sequence is a matter of stable homotopy theory.
The known differentials can be derived by exploiting more and more
subtle aspects of the homotopy-commutativity of the stable homotopy groups
of spheres
(or, in our jargon, the $E_\infty$-structure of the sphere spectrum).
The first $d_2$-differential in the mod-2 Adams spectral sequence is
a consequence of the graded-commutativity $yx=(-1)^{|x||y|}xy$ in the ring
of stable homotopy groups of spheres:
like any element of odd dimension, the third Hopf map $\sigma$
in the stable 7-stem has to satisfy $2\sigma^2=0$.
The class $h_0h_3^2$ which represents $2\sigma^2$
in $E_2^{3,17}$ is non-zero, so it has to be in the image of some differential.
In these dimensions, the only possible differential
is $d_2(h_4) = h_0 h_3^2$, which simultaneously proves that the class
$h_4\in E_2^{1,16}$ is not an infinite cycle and thus
excludes the existence of a 16-dimensional real division algebra.
Graded-commutativity of the multiplications is only a faint shadow of the
$E_\infty$-structure on the sphere spectrum.
A more detailed investigation reveals that an $E_\infty$-structure
on a ring spectrum yields
{\em power operations}~\cite[Ch.~I]{bruner-may-mcclure-steinberger},
\cite[Sec.~7]{rezk-units}.
Various kinds of power operations can be constructed on the homotopy and
(generalized) homology groups of the $E_\infty$-ring spectrum and on the
$E_2$-term of the Adams spectral sequence. These operations interact in certain
ways with the differential, and this interaction is an
effective tool for determining such differentials. For example,
the operations propagate the first $d_2$-differential,
which proves that the classes
$h_i$ for $i=0,1,2$ and 3 are the only infinite cycles on the 1-line and
excludes the existence of other real division algebras.
{\bf Algebraic $K$-theory.}
Structured ring spectra and algebraic $K$-theory are closely related
in many ways, and in both directions.
Algebraic $K$-theory started out as the Grothendieck group of
finitely generated projective modules over a ring. Quillen introduced
the higher algebraic $K$-groups as the homotopy groups of a certain
topological space, for which he gave two different constructions
(the {\em plus-construction}
and the {\em Q-construction}~\cite{quillen-higher K}).
Nowadays, algebraic $K$-theory can accept various sorts of categorical data as
input, and produces spectra as output
(the spaces Quillen constructed are the underlying
infinite loop spaces of these $K$-theory spectra).
For example, the symmetric monoidal category (under direct sum)
of finitely generated projective modules leads to the $K$-theory spectrum
of a ring, and the category of finite sets (under disjoint union)
produces the sphere spectrum. If the input category has a second symmetric
monoidal product which suitably distributes over the `sum',
then algebraic $K$-theory produces commutative ring spectra as output.
It was Waldhausen who pioneered the algebraic $K$-theory of structured
ring spectra, introduced the {\em algebraic $K$-theory of a
topological space $X$} as the algebraic $K$-theory of the {\em
spherical group ring} $S[\Omega X] = \Sigma^\infty \Omega X_+$ and
established close links to geometric topology, see~\cite{waldhausen-K
of spaces I}. Waldhausen could deal with such ring spectra, or their
modules, in an unstable, less technical fashion before the modern
categories of spectra were found: his first definition of the
algebraic $K$-theory of a ring spectrum mimics Quillen's
plus-construction applied to the classifying space of the infinite
general linear group. Similarly, B{\"o}kstedt~\cite{Boek:THH} (in
cooperation with Waldhausen) defined {\em topological Hochschild
homology} using so-called {\em Functors with Smash Product}, which
were only later recognized as the monoids with respect to the smash
product of simplicial functors~\cite{lydakis-simplicial}. In any
event, a good bit of the development of $A_\infty$-ring spectra was
motivated by the applications in algebraic $K$-theory.
Later, Waldhausen developed one of the most flexible and powerful
$K$-theory machines, the
{\em $S_\bullet$-construction}~\cite{waldhausen-magnum_opus}
which starts with a {\em category with cofibrations and weak equivalences}
(nowadays often referred to as a {\em Waldhausen category}).
Originally, Waldhausen associated to this data a sequential spectrum
and indicated~\cite[p.~342]{waldhausen-magnum_opus} how a categorical
pairing leads to a smash product pairing on $K$-theory spectra.
The $S_\bullet$-construction can be applied to a
category of cofibrant highly structured module spectra.
Applying this to Eilenberg-Mac Lane ring spectra gives back Quillen $K$-theory,
and applied to spherical group rings of the form $S[\Omega X]$
gives an interpretation of Waldhausen's $A(X)$.
Hesselholt eventually recognized that the iterated $S_\bullet$-construction
gives $K$-theory as a symmetric spectrum and that it turns good products
on the input category into symmetric
ring spectra~\cite[Prop.~6.1.1]{hesselholt-geisser-TC schemes}.
Elmendorf and Mandell~\cite{elmendorf-mandell} have a different
way of rigidifying the algebraic $K$-theory of a bipermutative category
into an $E_\infty$-symmetric ring spectrum.
{\bf Units of a ring spectrum.}
One of the more subtle generalizations of a classical
construction is that of the units of a ring spectrum.
The units of a structured ring spectrum form a loop space,
and in the presence of enough commutativity (i.e., for $E_\infty$-
or strictly commutative ring spectra), the units even form
an infinite loop space. These observations are due to May and are
highly relevant to orientation theory and bordism.
A recent application of these techniques is the construction by
Ando, Hopkins and Rezk, of $E_\infty$-maps
$MO\langle 8\rangle \to \mathbf{tmf}$
from the string-cobordism spectrum to the spectrum of topological modular forms
which realize the Witten genus
on homotopy groups~\cite[Sec.~6]{hopkins-ICM02}
(this refines earlier work of Ando, Hopkins and Strickland on
the $MU\langle 6\rangle$-orientation of
elliptic spectra~\cite{hopkins-ICM94, ando-hopkins-strickland-cube,
ando-hopkins-strickland-Hinfty}).
The details of this are not yet publicly available,
but see~\cite[Sec.~6]{hopkins-ICM02}, \cite{laures-K1 local}, \cite{rezk-units}.
Waldhausen's first definition of algebraic $K$-theory of a ring spectrum
is based on Quillen's plus-construction and uses the units of matrix ring
spectra.
While for a commutative ring in the classical sense, the units are always
a direct summand in the first $K$-group, Waldhausen showed that
the units of the sphere spectrum do not split off its $K$-theory spectrum,
not even on the level of homotopy groups. This phenomenon has been
studied systematically by Schlichtkrull~\cite{schlichtkrull-units},
producing non-trivial classes in the $K$-theory of an $E_\infty$-ring spectrum
from homotopy classes which are not annihilated by the Hopf map $\eta$.
{\bf Homotopical algebraic geometry.}
In this Arbeitsgemeinschaft, we are trying to convey the idea
that the foundations of multiplicative stable homotopy theory are now
in good shape, and ready to use. In fact, the machinery allows
to `glue' commutative ring spectra into more general algebro-geometric objects,
making them the affine pieces of `schemes' or even `stacks'.
This area is becoming known as {\em homotopical algebraic geometry},
and one set of foundations has been pioneered by To{\"e}n and Vezzosi
in a series of papers~\cite{HAGI, HAGII, HAG2DAG, brave new AG}.
Another promising line of research is to investigate small (e.g.,
Deligne-Mum\-ford) stacks which come equipped with a flat morphism
to the moduli stack of formal groups; one might hope to lift the
graded structure sheaf of such a stack to a sheaf of ring spectra
and capture a snapshot of stable homotopy theory. In this context,
one may think of the generalized algebro-geometric objects as an
ordinary scheme or stack, together with a sheaf of $E_\infty$-ring
spectra, which locally looks like `Spec' of an $E_\infty$-ring
spectrum. The structure sheaf of the underlying ordinary stack can
be recovered by taking $\pi_0$ of the sheaf of ring spectra. It is
essentially by this program that Hopkins and his coworkers produced
{\em topological modular forms} (the `universal' version of elliptic
cohomology) and the recent work of Lurie shows that these ideas can
be extended to almost any situation where the Serre-Tate theorem on
deformations applies. Here the flow of information goes both ways:
the number theory informs homotopy theoretic calculations, but
surprising algebraic phenomena, such as the Borcherds congruence in
modular forms, have natural homotopy theoretic
explanations~\cite[Thm.~5.10]{hopkins-ICM02}.
While this is a `hot' area in algebraic topology, the organizers decided
not to have talks about it in this AG because of the lack
of publicly available literature
(but see~\cite{bauer-tmf, goerss-moduli stacks, hopkins-ICM94,
hopkins-ICM02, HopMah:EO2, laures-K1 local, rezk-math 512}).
{\bf Rigidity theorem.}
After having discussed various models for the stable homotopy category,
the last day of the AG will be devoted to its `rigidity'
property~\cite{schwede-rigid};
this says that the stable homotopy category admits essentially only one model.
More precisely, any model category whose
homotopy category is equivalent, as a triangulated category,
to the homotopy category of spectra is already
{\em Quillen equivalent} to the model category of spectra.
Loosely speaking, this says that all higher order homotopy theory
is determined by the homotopy category, a property which is very special.
Examples of triangulated categories which have inequivalent models are given
in~\cite[2.1, 2.2]{schwede-2local} or~\cite[Rem.~6.8]{dugger-shipley}
(which is based on~\cite{schlichting-invent}).
In algebra, a `rigidity theorem' for unbounded derived categories
of rings is provided by {\em tilting theory}; it is usually stated
in the form that if two rings are derived equivalent, then,
under a flatness assumption, there is a complex of bimodules~$X$
such that derived tensor product with $X$ is an equivalence
of triangulated categories~\cite{rickard-derived functors}
(a reworking of this result in model category terms, which also
removes the flatness assumption, can be
found in~\cite[Thm.~4.2]{dugger-shipley}).
Rigidity fails for categories of dg-modules over differential graded
algebras~\cite[Rem.~6.8]{dugger-shipley}.
Incidentally, neither for derived categories of rings nor for the
stable homotopy category is it known whether every derived equivalence
lifts to a Quillen equivalence, or equivalently,
whether there are exotic self-equivalences of these triangulated categories.
Questions about rigidity and exotic models are related to the problem
of whether algebraic $K$-theory is an invariant of triangulated categories.
Quillen equivalent model categories have equivalent
$K$-theory spectra~\cite[Cor.~3.10]{dugger-shipley}, \cite{sagave},
and in special `rigid' situations,
the triangulated category determines the model,
and thus the algebraic $K$-theory.
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