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| | Rings, modules, and algebras in infinite loop space theory, by Anthony D. Elmendorf and Michael A. Mandell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | We give a new construction of the algebraic K-theory of small permutative categories that preserves multiplicative structure, and therefore allows us to give a unified treatment of rings, modules, and algebras in both the input and output. |
 | | The framework we use is the concept of multicategory, a generalization of symmetric monoidal category that precisely captures the multiplicative structure we have present at all stages of the construction. |
 | | Our method ends up in Smith's category of symmetric spectra, with an intermediate stop at a new category that may be of interest in its own right, whose objects we call symmetric functors. |
| www.math.uiuc.edu /K-theory/0680 (148 words) |
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