Estimation of the order of nilpotence of torsion elements in the symplectic cobordism ring (Q1324899)
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Estimation of the order of nilpotence of torsion elements in the symplectic cobordism ring (English)
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21 July 1994
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This paper shows that if \(\alpha\) in symplectic cobordism is a torsion element of dimension less than \(2^{n+2} -3\) then \(\alpha^ k=0\) where \(k= 3^ n\). Further, for the elements \(\theta_ i\) exhibited by Nigel Ray, \(\theta_{2i}^{2i +3}=0\). This illustrates the theorem of Michael Hopkins on the nilpotence of the torsion in the homotopy of many spectra.
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symplectic cobordism
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torsion element
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