Couniversal spaces which are equivariantly commutative ring spectra

The paper identifies which couniversal spaces have suspension spectra equivalent to commutative orthogonal ring $G$-spectra for a compact Lie group $G$. Equivalently these are the couniversal spaces admitting an action of an $E_{\infty}^G$-operad. We show that they are precisely the couniversal spaces associated to a cofamily whose minimal subgroups are connected.

Keywords

equivariant ring spectra, commutativity, operad, orthogonal spectra, couniversal space

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

18D50, 55P91

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Received 21 August 2018

Received revised 31 March 2019

Accepted 2 April 2019

Published 30 October 2019