On a Theorem of Ossa
Authors:
David Copeland Johnson and W. Stephen Wilson
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 3753-3755
MSC (1991):
Primary 55P10, 55N20; Secondary 55N15, 55S10
MathSciNet review:
1415328
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Abstract: If 
is an elementary abelian 
-group, Ossa proved that the connective 
-theory of 
splits into copies of 
and of the connective 
-theory of the infinite real projective space. We give a brief proof of Ossa's theorem.
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David Copeland Johnson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506
Email:
johnson@ms.uky.edu
W. Stephen Wilson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Email:
wsw@math.jhu.edu
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-04062-8
Keywords:
$K$-theory,
real projective space,
elementary abelian group
Received by editor(s):
January 11, 1996
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
July 19, 1996
Communicated by:
Thomas Goodwillie
Article copyright:
© Copyright 1997
American Mathematical Society