Abstract.In his paper On the groups J(X). IV, Adams suggested that one might try to continue his d and e invariants to a sequence of higher homotopy invariants, each defined upon the vanishing of its predecessors and each taking its value in a certain Ext group. Recently he pointed out the efficacy of relocating his d and e invariants in Ext groups formed over a certain abelian category of comodules. It is the purpose of this note to carry out the program suggested above in a setting of the sort just mentioned. More specifically, for each homology theory which is representable by a comutative ring spectrum and whose ring of cooperations is flat over the coefficient ring, a sequence of higher homotopy invariants is constructed whose first term is Adams' e invariant for this theory.
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