Picard groups of higher real -theory spectra at height

Using the descent spectral sequence for a Galois extension of ring spectra, we compute the Picard group of the higher real $K$-theory spectra of Hopkins and Miller at height $n=p-1$, for $p$ an odd prime. More generally, we determine the Picard groups of the homotopy fixed points spectra $E_{n}^{hG}$, where $E_{n}$ is Lubin–Tate $E$-theory at the prime $p$ and height $n=p-1$, and $G$ is any finite subgroup of the extended Morava stabilizer group. We find that these Picard groups are always cyclic, generated by the suspension.

Motivic connective K-theories and the cohomology of A(1)

We make some computations in stable motivic homotopy theory over Spec ℂ, completed at 2. Using homotopy fixed points and the algebraic K-theory spectrum, we construct over ℂ a motivic analogue of the real K-theory spectrum KO. We also establish a theory of motivic connective covers over ℂ to obtain a motivic version of ko. We establish an Adams spectral sequence for computing motivic ko-homology. The E2-term of this spectral sequence involves Ext groups over the subalgebra A(1) of the motivic Steenrod algebra. We make several explicit computations of these E2-terms in interesting special cases.