The Local Structure of Algebraic K-Theory

• Main Authors: Dundas, Bjørn Ian (Author), Goodwillie, Thomas G. (Author), McCarthy, Randy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Algebra and Applications, 18
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Category theory (Mathematics).; Homological algebra.; K-theory.; Algebraic topology.; K-Theory.; Algebraic Topology.; Category Theory, Homological Algebra.

Algebraic K-theory encodes important invariants for several mathematical disciplines, spanning from geometric topology and functional analysis to number theory and algebraic geometry. As is commonly encountered, this powerful mathematical object is very hard to calculate. Apart from Quillen's c...