Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Table of Contents - 1990 - Volume 107, Issue 02  

Research Article

The Morava K-theories of wreath products

John Huntona1

a1 Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ

In p-primary stable homotopy theory, recent developments have shown the importance of the Morava K-theory spectra K(n) for positive integers n. A current major problem concerns the behaviour of the K(n)-cohomologies on the classifying spaces of finite groups and on related spaces. In this paper we show how to compute the Morava K-theory of extended power constructions S0305004100068572_inline1 Here Xp is the p-fold product of some space X and Cp is the cyclic group of order p. In particular, if we take X as the classifying space BG for some group G, then Dp(X) forms the classifying space for S0305004100068572_inline2, the wreath product of G by Cp.

(Received March 21 1989)

(Revised June 26 1989)