------------------------------------- 6 new papers this time, from Chebolu-Christensen-Minac, Elmendorf-Mandell, Flores-Foote, Gray-Theriault, Kahn-Maltsiniotis, and Stacey-Whitehouse. Mark Hovey New papers appearing on hopf between 9/24/07 and 11/29/07 1. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Chebolu-Christensen-Minac/GH-periodic TITLE: Freyd's generating hypothesis for groups with periodic cohomology. AUTHORS: Sunil K. Chebolu, J. Daniel Christensen, and Jan Minac Department of Mathematics University of Western Ontario London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada ABSTRACT: Let $G$ be a finite group and let $k$ be a field whose characteristic $p$ divides the order of $G$. Freyd's generating hypothesis for the stable module category of $G$ is the statement that a map between finite-dimensional $kG$-modules in the thick subcategory generated by $k$ factors through a projective if the induced map on Tate cohomology is trivial. We show that if $G$ has periodic cohomology then the generating hypothesis holds if and only if the Sylow $p$-subgroup of $G$ is $C_2$ or $C_3$. We also give some other conditions that are equivalent to the GH for groups with periodic cohomology. 2. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Elmendorf-Mandell/EM2v5 A. D. Elmendorf and M. A. Mandell Multiplicative structure in infinite loop space theory We extend the K-theory functor constructed in our previous paper (Rings, modules, and algebras in infinite loop space theory, Advances in Mathematics 205 (2006) 163-228) to the bicomplete symmetric monoidal closed category of based (symmetric) multicategories, to which our previous source category of permutative categories and lax morphisms maps fully and faithfully. 3. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Flores-Foote/Flores-Foote Title: Strongly closed subgroups and the cellular structure of classifying spaces Authors: Ram\'on J. Flores and Richard M. Foote Abstract: In this paper we give a complete classification of the finite groups that contain a strongly closed $p$-subgroup, generalizing previous work of the second author to the case of an odd prime. We use this result to also obtain a description of the BZ/p-cellularization (in the sense of Dror-Farjoun) of all the classifying spaces of finite groups. 4. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Gray-Theriault/Gray-Theriault An elementary construction of Anick's fibration Brayton Gray Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL 60607-7045 Stephen Theriault Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Aberdeen Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, United Kingdom Cohen, Moore, and Neisendorfer's work on the odd primary homotopy theory of spheres and Moore spaces, as well as the first author's work on the secondary suspension, predicted the existence of a p-local fibration S^2n-1 --> T --> \Omega S^2n+1 whose connecting map is degree p^r. In a long and complex monograph, Anick constructed such a fibration for p>=5 and r>=1. Using new methods we give a much more conceptual construction which is also valid for p=3 and r>=1. We go on to establish several properties of the space T. 5. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Kahn-Maltsiniotis/StrDer Structures de dérivabilité Bruno KAHN & Georges MALTSINIOTIS Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu We introduce a very general framework in which Quillen's theorems of existence, composition and adjunction for derived functors can be proved. We thus generalize and unify previous results by Dwyer, Hirschhorn, Kan and Smith, obtained in their formalism of "homotopical categories", and by Radulescu-Banu in the context of Cisinski's "derivable categories". 6. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Stacey-Whitehouse/hopf Title: The Hunting of the Hopf Ring Authors: Andrew Stacey and Sarah Whitehouse Addresses of authors: Andrew Stacey Institutt for matematiske fag NTNU 7491 Trondheim Norway Sarah Whitehouse Department of Pure Mathematics University of Sheffield Sheffield S3 7RH UK Abstract: We provide a new algebraic description of the structure on the set of all unstable cohomology operations for a suitable generalised cohomology theory, E^*. Our description is as a graded and completed version of a Tall-Wraith monoid. The E^*-cohomology of a space X is a module for this Tall-Wraith monoid. We also show that the corresponding Hopf ring of unstable co-operations is a module for the Tall-Wraith monoid of unstable operations. Further examples are provided by considering operations from one theory to another. -----------------