Department of Mathematics, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, U.K. ; Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Abstract:
The natural transformation from -theory to the Tate cohomology of acting on -theory commutes with external products. Corollary: The Tate cohomology of acting on the -theory of any ring with involution is a generalized Eilenberg-Mac Lane spectrum, and it is 4-periodic.