Arithmetic localisation and completion of spectra

Abstract

This is an exposition of facts about p-local spectra, p-complete spectra and modules over the p-complete sphere spectrum, including homological criteria for finiteness. Most things are well-known to the experts, with a couple of potential exceptions: every dualisable p-complete spectrum is the p-completion of a finite spectrum, and the category of modules over the p-complete sphere has homological Brown representability.