Journal of the London Mathematical Society Advance Access originally published online on September 16, 2009
Journal of the London Mathematical Society 2009 80(3):665-679; doi:10.1112/jlms/jdp048
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© 2009 London Mathematical Society
Segal's conjecture and the Burnside rings of fusion systems
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Copenhagen
Universitetsparken 5
DK-2100 Copenhagen
Denmark
adiaz@math.ku.dk
Department of Mathematical Sciences
King's College
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UE
Scotland
United Kingdom
For a given saturated fusion system
we define the ring A(S)
of the
-invariants of the Burnside ring functor. We show how this ring is related to the Burnside ring of the fusion system
and how it appears naturally in the analogue of Segal's conjecture for the classifying spectrum 
. We give an explicit description of A(S)
and we prove it is a local ring.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 55Q55, 19A22, 20C20.
The authors were supported by an EPSRC grant EP/D506484/1.
Received September 5, 2008; revised March 24, 2009; published online September 16, 2009.