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On the algebraic K-theory of formal power series

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2012

Ayelet Lindenstrauss
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, U.S.A., alindens@indiana.edu
Randy McCarthy
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A., rmccrthy@illinois.edu
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Abstract

In this paper we extend the computation of the the typical curves of algebraic K-theory done by Lars Hesselholt and Ib Madsen to general tensor algebras. The models used allow us to determine the stages of the Taylor tower of algebraic K-theory as a functor of augmented algebras, as defined by Tom Goodwillie, when evaluated on derived tensor algebras.

For R a discrete ring, and M a simplicial R-bimodule, we let R(M) denote the (derived) tensor algebra of M over R, and πR denote the ring of formal (derived) power series in M over R. We define a natural transformation of functors of simplicial R-bimodules Φ: which is closely related to Waldhausen's equivalence We show that Φ induces an equivalence on any finite stage of Goodwillie's Taylor towers of the functors at any simplicial bimodule. This is used to show that there is an equivalence of functors , and for connected bimodules, also an equivalence

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Copyright © ISOPP 2012

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