# nLab stable (infinity,1)-category of spectra

Contents

### Context

#### $(\infty,1)$-Category theory

(∞,1)-category theory

## Models

#### Stable Homotopy theory

stable homotopy theory

Introduction

# Contents

## Idea

The collection of spectra form an (∞,1)-category $Sp(\infty Grpd)$ which is in fact a stable (∞,1)-category. Indeed, it is the universal property stabilization of the $(\infty,1)$-category ∞Grpd, equivalently of the simplicial localization of the category Top at the weak homotopy equivalences.

$Sp(\infty Grpd)$ plays a role in stable homotopy theory analogous to the role played by the 1-category Ab of abelian groups in homological algebra, or rather of the category of chain complexes $Ch_\bullet(Ab)$ of abelian groups.

## Definition

In the context of (∞,1)-categories a spectrum is a spectrum object in the (∞,1)-category $L_{whe} Top_*$ of pointed topological spaces.

Recall that spectrum objects in the (infinity,1)-category $C$ form a stable (∞,1)-category $Sp(C)$.

The stable (∞,1)-category of spectrum objects in $L_{whe} Top_*$ is the stable $(\infty,1)$-category of spectra

$Stab(L_{whe}Top) := Sp(L_{whe}Top_*) \,.$

## Properties

### Prime spectrum and Morava K-theory

The prime spectrum of a monoidal stable (∞,1)-category for p-local and finite spectra is labeled by the Morava K-theories. This is the content of the thick subcategory theorem.

### Model category presentation

There are several presentations of the $(\infty,1)$-category of spectra by model categories of spectra. In particular there are symmetric monoidal model categories where the smash product of spectra is presented by an ordinary tensor product, so that A-∞ rings, E-∞ rings and ∞-modules are presented by 1-categorical monoid objects and module objects, respectively (“brave new algebra”). See at:

## References

the stable $(\infty,1)$-category of spectra is described in chapter 1 of

or section 9 of

Its monoidal structure is described in section 4.2

That this is a symmetric monoidal structure is described in section 6 of

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