• Media type: Text; E-Article
  • Title: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra / The "fundamental theorem" for the algebraic K-theory of spaces. II: The canonical involution
  • Contributor: Hüttemann, Thomas [Author]; Klein, John R. [Author]; Vogell, Wolrad [Author]; Waldhausen, Friedhelm [Author]; Williams, Bruce [Author]
  • Published: noah.nrw, 2002
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-4049(01)00067-6
  • ISSN: 0022-4049
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  • Description: Let X --> A(X) denote the algebraic K-theory of spaces functor. In the first paper of this series, we showed A(X x S-1) decomposes into a product of a copy of A(X), a delooped copy of A(X) and two homeomorphic nil terms. The primary goal of this paper is to determine how the "canonical involution" acts on this splitting. A consequence of the main result is that the involution acts so as to transpose the nil terms. From a technical point of view, however, our purpose will be to give another description of the involution on A(X) which arises as a (suitably modified) P.-construction. The main result is proved using this alternative discription. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
  • Access State: Open Access