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• CommentRowNumber1.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeJun 15th 2017
• (edited Jun 15th 2017)

I am looking for a decent account of the homotopy ring spectrum structure on $KU$ with $KU_0 = BU \times \mathbb{Z}$ that would be self-contained for a reader with good point-set topology background, but not involving $E_\infty$ or model category theory.

What I find in the literature is all sketchy, but maybe I am looking in the wrong places.

First, a discussion of the H-space structure on $BU\times \mathbb{Z}$ in the first place I find on p. 205 (213 of 251) in A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology. But for the crucial step it there only says:

we merely affirm that, by fairly elaborate arguments, one can pass to colimits to obtain a product

Is there a reference that would spell this out?

Next, for the proof of the homotopy ring spectrum structure on $KU$, the idea is indicated on the first page of

James McLure, $H_\infty$-ring spectra via space-level homotopy theory (pdf)

Is there a place where this would be spelled out in some detail?