A space
is an infinite loop
space if there is a sequence
with homotopy
equivalences
, i.e.
can be
de-looped arbitrarily many times. By adjunction, we have maps
so
form a spectrum. Conversely
there is a functor from spectra to infinite loop spaces given by
sending a spectrum
to
.
Jeffrey Herschel Giansiracusa
2005-06-27