Preston Cranford, Northwestern
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PDL C-401
The Hopkins-Mahowald theorem realizes F_2 as an E_2-Thom spectrum. We will discuss generalized Thom spectra and how to view F_2, Z, and ku as E_3-MU-Thom spectra. As a consequence, we can recover the calculation of THH(F_2), with comultiplicative structure, by studying descent along the map to THH(F_2/MU).