nLab Peter Landweber

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Selected writings

The Landweber exact functor theorem:

• Peter Landweber, Homological properties of comodules over $MU^\ast(MU)$ and $BP^\ast(BP)$, American Journal of Mathematics (1976): 591-610 (jstor:2373808)

On bordism homology theory/cobordism cohomology theory:

• Peter Landweber, A survey of bordism and cobordism, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Volume 100, Issue 2 September 1986 , pp. 207-223 (doi:10.1017/S0305004100066032)

Introducing elliptic cohomology:

• Peter Landweber, Elliptic Cohomology and Modular Forms, in: Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms in Algebraic Topology, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1326 (1988) 55-68 [doi:10.1007/BFb0078038]

  (see also modular forms)

• Peter Landweber, Douglas Ravenel, Robert Stong, Periodic cohomology theories defined by elliptic curves, in Haynes Miller et al (eds.), The Cech centennial: A conference on homotopy theory, June 1993, AMS (1995) (pdf)

• Peter Landweber, Elliptic genera: An introductory overview In: P. Landweber (eds.) Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms in Algebraic Topology, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1326. Springer (1988) (doi:10.1007/BFb0078036)

Related $n$Lab entries

• Landweber exact functor theorem

• elliptic genus

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