nLab W. Stephen Wilson

W. Stephen Wilson is an American homotopy theorist based at John Hopkins University. He specializes ‘in the use and development of complex (co)bordism, Brown-Peterson (co)homology and Morava K-theory’.

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Selected writings

Introducing the Johnson-Wilson spectrum (see at Morava K-theory):

• David Copeland Johnson, W. Stephen Wilson, BP operations and Morava’s extraordinary K-theories, Math. Z. 144 (1): 55−75 (1975) (pdf)

On unstable cohomology operations (hence: in non-abelian cohomology):

• John Michael Boardman, David Copeland Johnson, W. Stephen Wilson, Unstable Operations in Generalized Cohomology (pdf), in: Ioan Mackenzie James (ed.) Handbook of Algebraic Topology Oxford 1995 (doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-81779-2.X5000-7)

On Hopf rings in algebraic topology:

• Douglas Ravenel, W. Stephen Wilson, The Hopf ring for complex cobordism, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 80 (6) 1185 - 1189, November 1974 (doi:10.1016/0022-4049(77)90070-6, euclid, pdf)

  (on MU)

• W. Stephen Wilson, Hopf rings in algebraic topology, Expositiones Mathematicae, 18:369–388, 2000 (pdf)

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