On a theorem of Ossa
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Abstract:
If $V$ is an elementary abelian $2$-group, Ossa proved that the connective $K$-theory of $BV$ splits into copies of $\mathbf { Z}/2$ and of the connective $K$-theory of the infinite real projective space. We give a brief proof of Ossa’s theorem.References
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Additional Information
- 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
- MR Author ID: 183425
- Email: wsw@math.jhu.edu
- Received by editor(s): January 11, 1996
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 19, 1996
- Communicated by: Thomas Goodwillie
- © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 3753-3755
- MSC (1991): Primary 55P10, 55N20; Secondary 55N15, 55S10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-04062-8
- MathSciNet review: 1415328