K(K)

Henri Gillet, University of Illinois at Chicago, henri@math.uic.edu

Building on the work of many others, including: LeComte, Schechtmann, Suslin, Paluch, Soulé and the author, and in particular the computations done in the "classical" case of topological K-theory, I shall describe a method of computing the algebraic K-theory of algebraic K-theory, i.e., the ring of operations on K-theory. That is, working in the homotopy category of simplicial sheaves we shall compute the K-theory of one of the simplicial sheaves, such as the "G-construction" of D. Grayson and the author, representing K-theory. One difference between this and the previous work is that I shall work integrally, and shall try to avoid problems with stabilization. The point is not so much new results as to have a conceptual approach.