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A splitting for the stable mapping class group
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 1999
Abstract
The main result of [15] is that the classifying space of the stable mapping class group after plus construction BΓ+∞ is an infinite loop space. This result is used to show that, localized away from two, a connected component of the stable homotopy groups of spheres QS0 splits off BΓ+∞. The splitting is a splitting of infinite loop spaces. It follows immediately that the homology with coefficients in ℤ[½] of the infinite symmetric group is a direct summand of the homology of the stable mapping class group.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 127 , Issue 1 , July 1999 , pp. 55 - 65
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- The Cambridge Philosophical Society 1999
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