Thom Complexes and the Spectrum tmf
Abstract
Many interesting spectra can be constructed as Thom spectra of easily constructed bundles. Mahowald showed that bu and bo cannot be realized as E1 Thom spectra. We use related techniques to show that tmf(2) also cannot be realized as an E1 Thom spectrum.
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