We develop a new system of model structures on the modules, algebras and commutative algebras over symmetric spectra. In addition to the same properties as the standard stable model structures defined in [HSS] and [MMSS], these model structures have better compatibility properties between commutative algebras and the underlying modules.

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These notes are based on lectures given at the Workshop on Structured ring spectra and

Abstract: We construct Quillen equivalences between the model categories of monoids (rings), modules and algebras over two Quillen equivalent model categories under certain conditions. This is a continuation of our earlier work where we established model categories of monoids, modules and algebras [SS00]. As an application we extend the Dold-Kan equivalence to show that the model categories of simplicial rings, modules and algebras are Quillen equivalent to the associated model categories of connected differential graded rings, modules and algebras. We also show that our classification results from [SS] concerning stable model categories translate to any one of the known symmetric monoidal model categories of spectra. 1.

We discuss the Picard group, the Grothendieck ring, and the Burnside ring of a symmetric monoidal category, and we consider examples from algebra, homological algebra, topology, and algebraic geometry.

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Abstract. We show that the monoidal product on the stable homotopy category of spectra is essentially unique. This strengthens work of this author with Schwede on the uniqueness of models of the stable homotopy theory of spectra. As an application we show that with an added assumption about underlying model structures Margolis ’ axioms uniquely determine the stable homotopy category of spectra up to monoidal equivalence. Also, the equivalences constructed here give a unified construction of the known equivalences of the various symmetric monoidal categories of spectra (S-modules, W-spaces, orthogonal spectra, simplicial functors) with symmetric spectra. The equivalences of modules, algebras and commutative algebras in these categories are also considered. 1.

Suppose that A is a regular noetherian ring that is also an Fp-algebra. Then it was proved by the author and Madsen [5, 7] that there is a long-exact sequence q−2i

We identify the topological Hochschild homology (THH) of the Thom spectrum associated to an E ∞ classifying map X → BG, for G an appropriate group or monoid (e.g. U, O, and F). We deduce the comparison from the observation of McClure, Schwanzl, and Vogt that THH of a cofibrant commutative S-algebra (E ∞ ring spectrum) R can be described as an indexed colimit together with a verification that the Lewis-May operadic Thom spectrum functor preserves indexed colimits. We prove a splitting result THH(Mf) ≃ Mf ∧BX+ which yields a convenient description of THH(MU). This splitting holds even when the classifying map f: X → BG is only a homotopy commutative A ∞ map, provided that the induced multiplication on Mf extends to an E ∞ ring structure; this permits us to recover Bokstedt’s calculation of THH(HZ).

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