Fibrant resolutions for motivic Thom spectra

Abstract: Using the theory of framed correspondences developed by Voevodsky [24] and the machinery of framed motives introduced and developed in [6], various explicit fibrant resolutions for a motivic Thom spectrum $E$ are constructed in this paper. It is shown that the bispectrum $$M_E^{\mathbb G}(X)=(M_{E}(X),M_{E}(X)(1),M_{E}(X)(2),\ldots),$$ each term of which is a twisted $E$-framed motive of $X$, introduced in the paper, represents $X_+\wedge E$ in the category of bispectra. As a topological application, it is proved that the $E$-framed motive with finite coefficients $M_E(pt)(pt)/N$, $N>0$, of the point $pt=Spec (k)$ evaluated at $pt$ is a quasi-fibrant model of the topological $S^2$-spectrum $Re^\epsilon(E)/N$ whenever the base field $k$ is algebraically closed of characteristic zero with an embedding $\epsilon:k\hookrightarrow\mathbb C$. Furthermore, the algebraic cobordism spectrum $MGL$ is computed in terms of $\Omega$-correspondences in the sense of [15]. It is also proved that $MGL$ is represented by a bispectrum each term of which is a sequential colimit of simplicial smooth quasi-projective varieties.