Date of Award

1-1-2015

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Content Description

1 online resource (v, 71 pages) : illustrations.

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Marco Varisco

Committee Members

Boris Goldfarb, Anupam Srivastav

Keywords

K-theory, k-groups, Homotopy theory, Generalized spaces, Representations of categories

Subject Categories

Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Abstract

We describe generators for the first algebraic K-theory group of categories with cofibrations, generalizing previous results by Gillet-Grayson and Sherman in the case of exact categories.

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