nLab moduli stack of tori

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Idea

Inside the compactified moduli stack of elliptic curves, at the cusp point corresponding to the nodal cubic curve sits the moduli stack of one dimensional tori 𝔾 m\mathcal{M}_{\mathbb{G}_m} (Lawson-Naumann 12, def. A.1, A.3). This is equivalent to the quotient stack of the point by the group of order 2

𝔾 mB 2 \mathcal{M}_{\mathbb{G}_m}\simeq \mathbf{B}\mathbb{Z}_2

(Lawson-Naumann 12, prop. A.4). Here the 2\mathbb{Z}_2-action is the inversion involution on abelian groups.

Using the Goerss-Hopkins-Miller theorem this stack carries an E-∞ ring-valued structure sheaf 𝒪 top\mathcal{O}^{top} (Lawson-Naumann 12, theorem A.5); and by the above equivalence this is a single E-∞ ring equipped with a 2\mathbb{Z}_2-∞-action. This is KU with its involution induced by complex conjugation, hence essentially is KRKR.

Accordingly, the global sections of 𝒪 top\mathcal{O}^{top} over 𝔾 m\mathcal{M}_{\mathbb{G}_m} are the 2\mathbb{Z}_2-homotopy fixed points of this action, hence is KO. This is further amplified in (Mathew 13, section 3) and (Mathew, section 2).

As suggested there and by the main (Lawson-Naumann 12, theorem 1.2) this realizes (at least localized at p=2p = 2) the inclusion KOKUKO \to KU as the restriction of an analogous inclusion of tmf built as the global sections of the similarly derived moduli stack of elliptic curves.

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References

Discussion of KUKU with its 2\mathbb{Z}_2-action as the E-∞ ring-valued structure sheaf of the moduli stack of tori is due to

which is reviewed and amplified further in

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