7 papers this by time, from Ghienne, Goerss-Henn-Mahowald, Ishiguro-LeeHS, McAuley, Panov-Ray-Vogt, Pengelley-Williams, and Sinha. Mark Hovey New papers appearing on hopf between 03/05/02 and 04/03/02 1. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Ghienne/ghiennephsnt Title of paper: Phantom maps, SNT-theory, and natural filtrations on lim^1 sets. Author: Pierre GHIENNE. AMS Classification: 55Q05, 55S37, 55P15. Adress of author: Matematisk Institut, Universitetsparken 5, DK--2100 København. E-mail adress: ghienne@math.ku.dk Text of abstract: We study the so-called Gray filtration on the set of phantom maps between two spaces. Using both its algebraic characterization and the Sullivan completion approach to phantom maps, we generalize some of the recent results of Le, McGibbon and Strom. We particularly emphasize on the set of phantom maps with infinite Gray index, describing it in an original algebraic way. We furthermore introduce and study a natural filtration on SNT-sets (that is sets of homotopy types of spaces having the same $n$-type for all $n$), which appears to have the same algebraic characterization of the Gray one on phantom maps. For spaces whose rational homotopy type is that of an $H$-space or a co-$H$-space, we establish criteria permitting to determinate those subsets of this filtration which are non trivial, generalizing work of McGibbon and M\o ller. We finally describe algebraically the natural connection between phantom maps and SNT-theory, associating to a phantom map its homotopy fiber or cofiber. We use this description to show that this connection respect filtrations, and to find generic examples of spaces for which the filtration on the corresponding SNT-set consists of infinitely many strict inclusions. 2. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Goerss-Henn-Mahowald/18-02-ghm Title: The homotopy of L_2V(1) for the prime 3 Authors: Paul Goerss, Hans-Werner Henn and Mark Mahowald Adresses: Northwestern University, Universite Louis Pasteur, Northwestern University ABSTRACT Let V(1) be the Toda-Smith complex for the prime 3. We give a complete calculation of the homotopy groups of the L_2-localization of V(1) by making use of the higher real K-theory EO_2 of Hopkins and Miller and related homotopy fixed point spectra. In particular we resolve an ambiguity which was left in an earlier approach of Shimomura whose computation was almost complete but left an unspecified parameter still to be determined. 3. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Ishiguro-LeeHS/2_21_02 Homotopy fixed point sets and actions on homogeneous spaces of $p$--compact groups Kenshi Ishiguro (kenshi@cis.fukuoka-u.ac.jp) Fukuoka University, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan and Hyang-Sook Lee (hsl@mm.ewha.ac.kr) Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea We generalize a result of Dror Farjoun and Zabrodsky on the relationship between fixed point sets and homotopy fixed point sets, which is related to the generalized Sullivan Conjecture. As an application, we discuss extension problems considering actions on homogeneous spaces of $p$--compact groups. 4. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/McAuley/mcauleypaper This is another new version of Louis McAuley's paper titled "A proof of the Hilbert-Smith conjecture". 5. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Panov-Ray-Vogt/0202081 Title: Colimits, Stanley-Reisner algebras, and loop spaces Authors: Taras Panov, Nigel Ray, and Rainer Vogt Addresses: Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow State University, 119899 Moscow, Russia; Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, England; Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik, Universitaet Osnabrueck, D-49069 Osnabrueck, Germany. E-mail addresses: tpanov@mech.math.msu.su nige@ma.man.ac.uk rainer@mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de Arxiv: math.AT/0202081 Abstract: We study diagrams associated with a finite simplicial complex K, in various algebraic and topological categories. We relate their colimits to familiar structures in algebra, combinatorics, geometry and topology. These include: right-angled Artin and Coxeter groups (and their complex analogues, which we call circulation groups); Stanley-Reisner algebras and coalgebras; Davis and Januszkiewicz's spaces DJ(K) associated with toric manifolds and their generalisations; and coordinate subspace arrangements. When K is a flag complex, we extend well-known results on Artin and Coxeter groups by confirming that the relevant circulation group is homotopy equivalent to the space of loops $\Omega DJ(K)$. We define homotopy colimits for diagrams of topological monoids and topological groups, and show they commute with the formation of classifying spaces in a suitably generalised sense. We deduce that the homotopy colimit of the appropriate diagram of topological groups is a model for $\Omega DJ(K)$ for an arbitrary complex K, and that the natural projection onto the original colimit is a homotopy equivalence when K is flag. In this case, the two models are compatible. 6. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Pengelley-Williams/toclarence The global structure of odd-primary Dickson algebras as algebras over the Steenrod algebra David J. Pengelley New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003 davidp@nmsu.edu Frank Williams New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003 frank@nmsu.edu Primary 55S05; Secondary 13A50, 16W30, 16W22, 16W50, 55S10 We prove a conjecture made by Frank Peterson on the global structure of the Dickson algebras arising as odd primary general linear group invariants. The Dickson algebra $W_{n}$ of invariants in a rank $n$ polynomial algebra over $% \mathbb{F}_{p}$ is an unstable algebra over the mod $p$ Steenrod algebra. We prove that $W_{n}$ is a free unstable algebra on a certain cyclic module, modulo just one additional relation. The result is both similar to and different from the corresponding result we previously obtained with Frank Peterson at the prime $2$. We also extend our characterization to the algebras of invariants under the special linear groups. 7. http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/generate?/Sinha/knots Title: The topology of spaces of knots. Author: Dev P. Sinha AMS Class: 57R40 (primary); 55T35, 57Q45 (secondary). LANL ID: math.AT/0202287 Addresses: Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene OR and Department of Mathematics, Brown University, Providence RI Email: dps@math.brown.edu Included EPS files: smallpenta.eps, smalltreepenta.eps Abstract: We present two models for the space of knots which have endpoints at fixed boundary points in a manifold with boundary, one model defined as an inverse limit of mapping spaces and another which is cosimplicial. These models are homotopy equivalent to the corresponding knot spaces when the dimension of the ambient manifold is greater than three, and there are spectral sequences with identifiable $E^1$ terms which converge to their cohomology and homotopy groups. The combinatorics of the spectral sequences is comparable to combinatorics which arises in finite-type invariant theory.