Extended powers and Steenrod operations in algebraic geometry

Terrence Bisson and Aristide Tsemo

Steenrod operations were defined by Voedvodsky in motivic cohomology in order to prove the Milnor and Bloch-Kato conjectures. These operations have also been constructed by Brosnan for Chow rings [5]. The purpose of this paper is to provide a setting for the construction of the Steenrod operations in algebraic geometry, for generalized cohomology theories whose formal group law has order two. We adapt the methods used by Bisson-Joyal in studying Steenrod and Dyer-Lashof operations in unoriented cobordism and mod 2 cohomology.

Homology, Homotopy and Applications, Vol. 10 (2008), No. 3, pp.85-100.

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