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Authors: A. D. Elmendorf, I. Kriz, M. A. Mandell and M. Cole J. P. May
Title: Rings, modules, and algebras in stable homotopy theory
Additional book information: Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, no. 47, AMS, Providence, RI, 1997, xi + 249 pp., ISBN 0-8218-0638-6, $62.00$

Authors: J. P. May, with contributions by M. Cole, G. Comezaña, S. Costenoble, A. D. Elmendorf, J. P. C. Greenlees, Jr. L. G. Lewis, R. J. Piacenza, G. Triantafillou and S. Waner
Title: Equivariant homotopy and cohomology theory
Additional book information: CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, no. 91, AMS, Providence, RI, 1996, xiii + 366 pp., ISBN 0-8128-0319-0, $49.00$

Author: J. P. May
Title: A concise course in algebraic topology
Additional book information: Chicago Lectures in Mathematics, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1999, ix + 247 pp., ISBN 0-226-51183-9, $18.00$, paper

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Cohen, F.R., Lada, T.J., May, J.P., The homology of iterated loop spaces, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics 533 (1976), vii+490. MR 55:9096

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tom Dieck, T., Bordism of -manifolds and integrality theorems, Topology 9 (1970), 345-384. MR 42:1148

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Elmendorf, A.D., Kriz, I., Mandell, M.A., May, J.P., Modern foundations for stable homotopy theory, Handbook of algebraic topology, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1995, pp. 213-253. MR 97d:55016

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Lewis, L.G., Jr., Is there a convenient category of spectra?, J. Pure and Appl. Alg. 73 (1991), 233-246. MR 92f:55008

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May, J.P. (with contributions by F. Quinn, N. Ray, and J. Tornehave), -ring spaces and -ring spectra, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics 577 (1977). MR 58:13008

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[1]

Adams, J.F., The structure and applications of the Steenrod algebra, Comm. Math. Helv. 32 (1958), 180-214. MR 0096219

[2]

Adams, J.F., On the groups , IV, Topology 5 (1966), 21-71. MR 33:6628

[3]

Atiyah, M.F. and Segal, G.B., Equivariant -theory and completion, J. Diff. Geom. 3 (1969), 1-18. MR 41:4575

[4]

Boardman, J.M., Stable homotopy theory, preprint, Warwick University, 1964.

[5]

Brown, E.H., Cohomology theories, Ann. of Math. 75 (1962), 79-85. MR 25:1551

[6]

Brown, E.H. and Peterson, F.P., A spectrum whose cohomology is the algebra of reduced th powers, Topology 5 (1966), 149-156. MR 33:719

[7]

Bruner, R.R., May, J.P., McClure, J.E., Steinberger, M., ring spectra and their applications,, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1176 (1986), viii+388. MR 88e:55001

[8]

Carlsson, G.E., Equivariant stable homotopy and Segal's Burnside ring conjecture, Ann. of Math. (2) 120 (1984), 189-224. MR 86f:57036

[9]

Cohen, F.R., Lada, T.J., May, J.P., The homology of iterated loop spaces, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics 533 (1976), vii+490. MR 55:9096

[10]

tom Dieck, T., Bordism of -manifolds and integrality theorems, Topology 9 (1970), 345-384. MR 42:1148

[11]

Elmendorf, A.D., Kriz, I., Mandell, M.A., May, J.P., Modern foundations for stable homotopy theory, Handbook of algebraic topology, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1995, pp. 213-253. MR 97d:55016

[12]

Hopkins, M.J., Global methods in homotopy theory, Proceedings of the 1985 LMS Symposium on Homotopy Theory, ed. by J.D.S. Jones and E. Rees, 1987, pp. 73-96. MR 89g:55022

[13]

Lewis, L.G., Jr., Is there a convenient category of spectra?, J. Pure and Appl. Alg. 73 (1991), 233-246. MR 92f:55008

[14]

Lewis, L.G., Jr.; May, J.P., Steinberger, M., McClure, J.E., Equivariant stable homotopy theory. With contributions by J. E. McClure, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1213 (1986), x+538. MR 88e:55002

[15]

Lima, E.L., The Spanier-Whitehead duality in new homotopy categories, Summa Brasil. Math. 4 (1959), 91-148. MR 22:7121

[16]

May, J. P., Stable algebraic topology, 1945-1966, History of Topology, ed. I. M. James, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1999, pp. 665-723. CMP 2000:04

[17]

May, J.P., Brave new worlds in stable homotopy theory, Homotopy theory via algebraic geometry and group representations (Evanston, IL, 1997) Contemp. Math., 220, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1998, pp. 193-212. MR 99g:55012

[18]

May, J.P. (with contributions by F. Quinn, N. Ray, and J. Tornehave), -ring spaces and -ring spectra, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics 577 (1977). MR 58:13008

[19]

Miller, H.R., The Sullivan conjecture on maps from classifying spaces, Ann. of Math. (2) 120 (1984), 39-87. MR 87k:55020

[20]

Milnor, J.W., On the cobordism ring and a complex analogue, Amer. J. Math. 82 (1960), 505-521. MR 22:9975

[21]

Novikov, S.P., The methods of algebraic topology from the viewpoint of cobordism theories, Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Math. 31 (1967), 855-951. MR 36:4561

[22]

Quillen, D.G., On the formal group laws of unoriented and complex cobordism theory, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 75 (1969), 1293-1298. MR 40:6565

[23]

Ravenel, D.C., Nilpotence and Periodicity in Stable Homotopy Theory, Annals of Mathematics Studies 128, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1992. MR 94b:55015

[24]

Smith, L., On realizing complex cobordism modules, II, Applications to the stable homotopy groups of spheres, Amer. J. Math. 93 (1971), 226-263. MR 43:1186b

[25]

Thom, R., Quelques propriétés globales des variétés différentiables, Comment. Math. Helv. 28 (1954), 17-86. MR 15:890a

[26]

Toda, H., On spectra realizing exterior parts of the Steenrod algebra, Topology 10 (1971), 53-65. MR 42:6814