nLab Bott element

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Cohomology

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A Bott element is an element in a periodic cohomology theory, multiplication by which is invertible.

Specifically for complex topological K-theory there is the element of 1LK(P 1)1 - L \,\in\, K\big( \mathbb{C}P^1 \big) degree 2 (the virtual difference of the trivial line bundle with the tautological line bundle on the Riemann sphere/complex projective 1-space) which induces Bott periodicity. This is where the term “Bott element” comes from. For details on this case see at

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