IN HIS WORK on complex cobordism [ 181 Novikov introduced a spectral sequence converging to the stable homotopy of a space, depending only on the complex cobordism of the space as a module over the ring of primary complex cobordism operations. This spectral sequence can be localized at a prime p and one can work, as Novikov did, with the smaller theory, BP*( ), known as Brown-Peterson cohomolog...