Symmetric spectra

Hovey, Mark; Shipley, Brooke; Smith, Jeff

doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-99-00320-3

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Symmetric spectra

Authors: Mark Hovey, Brooke Shipley and Jeff Smith
Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 13 (2000), 149-208
MSC (2000): Primary 55P42, 55U10, 55U35
Posted: September 22, 1999
MathSciNet review: 1695653
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Abstract: The stable homotopy category, much studied by algebraic topologists, is a closed symmetric monoidal category. For many years, however, there has been no well-behaved closed symmetric monoidal category of spectra whose homotopy category is the stable homotopy category. In this paper, we present such a category of spectra; the category of symmetric spectra. Our method can be used more generally to invert a monoidal functor, up to homotopy, in a way that preserves monoidal structure. Symmetric spectra were discovered at about the same time as the category of -modules of Elmendorf, Kriz, Mandell, and May, a completely different symmetric monoidal category of spectra.

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