Nilpotent subgroups of self equivalences of torsion spaces (Q1912784)

A spectrum \(E\) is connective if there is an integer \(k\) such that \(\pi_i(E)=0\) if \(i<k\) and \(\pi_k(E)\neq 0\), denoted \(ct(E)=k\). Let \(E(X)\) be the group of based self equivalences of \(X\) and consider the induced map from \(E(X)\) to \(\prod^{+\infty}_{i=-\infty}\text{Aut}(E_i(X))\). Each subgroup of \(E(X)\) acts on \(E_*(X)\) in a natural way. \(X\) is taken to be a based, connected, nilpotent CW-complex, its integral homology theory of \(p\)-torsion and \(\pi_k(E)\otimes\mathbb{Z}_p\neq 0\) with \(p\) a fixed prime and \(E\) a connective CW-spectrum with \(ct(E)=k\). The main theorem in this paper is that if a subgroup \(G\) of \(E(X)\) acts on \(E_i(X)\) nilpotently for all \(i\), then \(G\) is nilpotent.