Lifting N∞N_\infty operads from conjugacy data

We isolate a class of groups -- called lossless groups -- for which homotopy classes of $G$-$N_\infty$ operads are in bijection with certain restricted transfer systems on the poset of conjugacy classes $\operatorname{Sub}(G)/G$.Comment: v2: updates in response to referee report, accepted version in Tunisian Journal of Mathematics; 24 pages, 16 figures. v1: 22 pages, 13 figures; comments welcome

Composition closed premodel structures and the Kreweras lattice

We investigate the rich combinatorial structure of premodel structures on finite lattices whose weak equivalences are closed under composition. We prove that there is a natural refinement of the inclusion order of weak factorization systems so that the intervals detect these composition closed premodel structures. In the case that the lattice in question is a finite total order, this natural order retrieves the Kreweras lattice of noncrossing partitions as a refinement of the Tamari lattice, and model structures can be identified with stacked triangulations of a particular shape.Comment: 28 pages, 8 figures; comments welcome

A motivic analogue of the K(1)-local sphere spectrum

We identify the motivic $KGL/2$-local sphere as the fiber of $\psi^3-1$ on $(2,\eta)$-completed Hermitian $K$-theory, over any base scheme containing $1/2$. This is a motivic analogue of the classical resolution of the $K(1)$-local sphere, and extends to a description of the $KGL/2$-localization of an arbitrary motivic spectrum. Our proof relies on a novel conservativity argument that should be of broad utility in stable motivic homotopy theory.Comment: v2: cellularity hypothesis removed, 9 pages, comments still welcome! v1: 9 pages, comments welcome

Motivic Brown-Peterson invariants of the rationals

Fix the base field Q of rational numbers and let BP denote the family of motivic truncated Brown-Peterson spectra over Q. We employ a "local-to-global" philosophy in order to compute the motivic Adams spectral sequence converging to the bi-graded homotopy groups of BP. Along the way, we provide a new computation of the homotopy groups of BP over the 2-adic rationals, prove a motivic Hasse principle for the spectra BP, and deduce several classical and recent theorems about the K-theory of particular fields.Comment: 32 pages, 6 figures; Introduction and exposition improved, typos corrected, now published in Geometry & Topolog

Model structures on finite total orders

We initiate the study of model structures on (categories induced by) lattice posets, a subject we dub homotopical combinatorics. In the case of a finite total order $[n]$, we enumerate all model structures, exhibiting a rich combinatorial structure encoded by Shapiro's Catalan triangle. This is an application of previous work of the authors on the theory of $N_\infty$-operads for cyclic groups of prime power order, along with new structural insights concerning extending choices of certain model structures on subcategories of $[n]$.Comment: v2: pre-proofs version accepted to Mathematische Zeitschrift. 28 pages. v1: 30 page