Nilpotence notes
Posted on May 21, 2026
I have just finished giving an Algebraic Topology 3 course at University of Oslo. Lecture notes are available here. They cover roughly the following:
- Some elementary stable homotopy theory
- Spectral sequences
- The Adams spectral sequence
- MU and its homotopy groups
- Synthetic spectra
- The Nishida nilpotence theorem
- Burklund’s proof of the Devinatz-Hopkins-Smith nilpotence theorem
- The thick subcategory and periodicity theorems