Journal of Topology Advance Access originally published online on October 25, 2007
Journal of Topology 2008 1(1):87-114; doi:10.1112/jtopol/jtm007
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© 2007 London Mathematical Society
The tower of K-theory of truncated polynomial algebras
Lars Hesselholt, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA, larsh{at}math.mit.edu
Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan, larsh{at}math.nagoya-u.ac.jp
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Let A be a regular noetherian Fp-algebra. The relative K-groups Kq(A[x]/(xm),(x)) and the Nil-groups Nilq(A[x]/(xm)) were evaluated by the author and Ib Madsen in terms of the big de Rham–Witt groups Wr
Aq of the ring A. In this paper, we evaluate the maps of relative K-groups and Nil-groups induced by the canonical projection f: A[x]/(xm)
A[x]/(xn). The result depends strongly on the prime p. It generalizes earlier work by Stienstra on the groups in degrees 2 and 3.
Received February 28, 2007.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 19D55 (primary), 19E15 (secondary)
Research supported in part by the National Science Foundation.