The spectral sequence associated to the Arone-Goodwillie tower for the n-fold loop space functor is used to show that the first two non-trivial layers of the nilpotent filtration of the reduced mod 2 cohomology of a (sufficiently connected) space with nilpotent cohomology are comparable. This relies upon the theory of unstable modules over the mod 2 Steenrod algebra, together with properties of...

We describe the nilpotent subgroups of the group Bir(P(C)) of birational transformations of the complex projective plane. Let N be a nilpotent subgroup of class k > 1; then either each element of N has finite order, or N is virtually metabelian.

Let C be a small category and k a field. There are two interesting mathematical subjects: the category algebra kC and the classifying space |C| = BC. We study the ring homomorphism HH∗(kC) → H∗(|C|, k) and prove it is split surjective, using the factorization category of Quillen [16] and certain techniques from functor cohomology theory. This generalizes the well-known results for finite groups...