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   Annala, Toni; Hoyois, Marc; Iwasa, Ryomei (March 2024, Journal of the American Mathematical Society)

   We formulate and prove a Conner–Floyd isomorphism for the algebraic K-theory of arbitrary qcqs derived schemes. To that end, we study a stable $\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}$-category of non- ${\mathbb{A}}^1$-invariant motivic spectra, which turns out to be equivalent to the $\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}$-category of fundamental motivic spectra satisfying elementary blowup excision, previously introduced by the first and third authors. We prove that this $\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}$-category satisfies ${\mathbb{P}}^1$-homotopy invariance and weighted ${\mathbb{A}}^1$-homotopy invariance, which we use in place of ${\mathbb{A}}^1$-homotopy invariance to obtain analogues of several key results from ${\mathbb{A}}^1$-homotopy theory. These allow us in particular to define a universal oriented motivic ${\mathbb{E}}_{\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}}$-ring spectrum $\mathrm{M}\mathrm{G}\mathrm{L}$. We then prove that the algebraic K-theory of a qcqs derived scheme $X$can be recovered from its $\mathrm{M}\mathrm{G}\mathrm{L}$-cohomology via a Conner–Floyd isomorphism\[ ${\mathrm{M}\mathrm{G}\mathrm{L}}^{\ast <\#comment/>\ast <\#comment/>}\left(X\right){\otimes <\#comment/>}_{\mathrm{L}}\mathbb{Z}\left[{\mathrm{\beta <\#comment/>}}^{\pm <\#comment/>1}\right]\simeq <\#comment/>\mathrm{K}{}^{\ast <\#comment/>\ast <\#comment/>}\left(X\right),$\]where $\mathrm{L}$is the Lazard ring and $\mathrm{K}{}^{p,q}\left(X\right)=\mathrm{K}{}_{2q-<\#comment/>p}\left(X\right)$. Finally, we prove a Snaith theorem for the periodized version of $\mathrm{M}\mathrm{G}\mathrm{L}$. 

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   Yuan, Allen (January 2023, Journal of the American Mathematical Society)

   We give a fully faithful integral model for simply connected finite complexes in terms of ${\mathbb{E}}_{\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}}$-ring spectra and the Nikolaus–Scholze Frobenius. The key technical input is the development of a homotopy coherent Frobenius action on a certain subcategory of $p$-complete ${\mathbb{E}}_{\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}}$-rings for each prime $p$. Using this, we show that the data of a simply connected finite complex $X$is the data of its Spanier-Whitehead dual, as an ${\mathbb{E}}_{\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}}$-ring, together with a trivialization of the Frobenius action after completion at each prime. In producing the above Frobenius action, we explore two ideas which may be of independent interest. The first is a more general action of Frobenius in equivariant homotopy theory; we show that a version of Quillen’s $Q$-construction acts on the $\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}$-category of ${\mathbb{E}}_{\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}}$-rings with “genuine equivariant multiplication,” which we call global algebras. The second is a “pre-group-completed” variant of algebraic $K$-theory which we callpartial $K$-theory. We develop the notion of partial $K$-theory and give a computation of the partial $K$-theory of ${\mathbb{F}}_p$up to $p$-completion. 

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   Chirvasitu, Alexandru (July 2023, Representation Theory of the American Mathematical Society)

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   Golsefidy, S Alireza; Srinivas, Srivatsa (January 2025, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society)

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