Abhiram Srinivas — BS-MS student at IISER Mohali and visiting master's student at IISc Bengaluru, working on Yang–Mills energy on 4-manifolds, stable homotopy theory and topological quantum field theory. 2026-07-27T00:00:00.000Z https://mailabhiramsrinivas-art.github.io/ Abhiram Srinivas ms22093@iisermohali.ac.in 2026-07-27T00:00:00.000Z https://mailabhiramsrinivas-art.github.io/notes/why-spectra/

A short note on why the stable homotopy category is a more comfortable place to work than the unstable one — and what gets lost on the way there.