1. Cobasically discrete modules and generalizations of Bousfield's exact sequence.
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Crossley, M. D. and Khafaja, N. T.
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Bousfield introduced an algebraic category of modules that reflects the structure detected by p-localized complex topological K-theory. He constructed, for any module M in this category, a natural 4-term exact sequence 0 → M → U M → U M → M ⊗ Q → 0 , where U denotes the co-free functor, right adjoint to the forgetful functor to Z (p) -modules. Clarke et al. identified the objects of Bousfield's category as the 'discrete' modules for a certain topological ring A, obtained as a completion of the polynomial ring Z (p) [ x ] , and simplified the construction of the Bousfield sequence in this context. We introduce the notion of 'cobasically discrete' R-modules as a clarification of the Clarke et al. modules, noting that these correspond to comodules over the coalgebra that R is dual to. We study analogues of the Bousfield sequence for other polynomial completion rings, noting a variety of behaviour in the last term of the sequence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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