Ossa's Theorem via the Kunneth formula

Abstract

Let $p$ be a prime. We calculate the connective unitary K-theory of the smash product of two copies of the classifying space for the cyclic group of order $p$, using a Künneth formula short exact sequence. As a corollary, using the Bott exact sequence and the mod $2$ Hurewicz homomorphism we calculate the connective orthogonal K-theory of the smash product of two copies of the classifying space for the cyclic group of order two.

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