\(\mathcal {E}_\infty \) ring spectra and elements of Hopf invariant 1 (Q2398331)

In this paper, the author constructs and studies a family of \(2\)-local \(E_{\infty}\) Thom spectra \(M_{j_1}, M_{j_2}, M_{j_3}\). They are shown to be equivalent to reduced free commutative \(S\)-algebras on certain CW-spectra built by attaching cells along Hopf invariant \(1\) elements. It is pointed out that the latter CW-spectra also appear in work of \textit{M. Behrens} et al. [``On the ring of cooperations for 2-primary connective topological modular forms'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1501.01050}]. The author's computation of the homology of these Thom spectra as \(\mathcal A_*\)-comodule algebras motivates his conjecture that \(M{j_2}\) is a wedge of \(kO\)-module spectra and that \(M_{j_3}\) is a wedge of \(\text{tmf}\)-module spectra.