nLab Victor Snaith

Victor P. Snaith was an algebraist, algebraic topologist and algebraic geometer (born 1944, died 2021), prof. emeritus at Sheffield

• personal webpage,

• institute page.

Selected writings

On infinite loop spaces:

• Ib Madsen, Victor Snaith, Jørgen Tornehave, Infinite loop maps in geometric topology, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Volume 81, Issue 3, (1977)(doi:10.1017/S0305004100053482)

On algebraic cobordism and introducing Snaith's theorem:

• Algebraic cobordism and $K$-theory. Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1979), no. 221, vii+152 pp.

• Algebraic $K$-theory and localised stable homotopy theory. Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (1983), no. 280, xi+102 pp.

• Stable homotopy around the Arf-Kervaire invariant, Progress in Mathematics 273, Birkhäuser Basel, 2009, ISBN10:3764399031

• Infinite loop maps and the complex J-homomorphism, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 82, 3 (1976), 508-510 MR0410741, euclid

On the J-homomorphism:

• The complex J-homomorphism. I, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., III. Ser. 34, 269-302 (1977), (Zbl 0344.55016)

• Geometric dimension of complex vector bundles, Serie notas у simposia del Мех. Mat. Soc. 1 (1975) 199-227.

• Towards algebraic cobordism, Bull. A, M.. Soc. 83, 3 (1977).

• D. Gepner, V. Snaith, On the motivic spectra representing algebraic cobordism and algebraic K-theory, Doc. Math., 14:359–396 (electronic), 2009, pdf

Related pages

• algebraic cobordism

• Snaith's theorem