Stroilova, Olga (Olga Y.)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The purpose of this work is give some field notes on exploring the idea that a generalized Tate construction tk reduces chromatic level in stable homotopy theory. The first parts introduce the construction and discuss ...
Savale, Nikhil, Jr. (Nikhil A.)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
In this thesis, we study the problem of asymptotic spectral flow for a family of coupled Dirac operators. We prove that the leading order term in the spectral flow on an n dimensional manifold is of order r n+1/2 followed ...