On the homotopy groups of the self-equivalences of linear spheres (Q2806126)

For a finite group \(G\) and its complex representation \(V\) with a \(G\)-invariant scalar product, let \(S(V)\subset V\) be its linear sphere and let \(S(V)^*n\) denote the \(n\)-fold join of \(S(V)\). Let \(\mathrm{aut}(X)\) denote the identity component of the space of self-homotopy equivalences of a \(G\)-space \(X\) and let \(\mathrm{aut}_G(X)\subset\mathrm{aut}(X)\) be the subspace of \(G\)-equivariant self-homotopy equivalences. In this paper, the author considers the case \(X=S(V)^*n\) and studies the stabilization problem of homotopy groups of the sequence induced from the suspension maps, NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\mathrm{aut}_G(S(V))\to\cdots\to\mathrm{aut}_G(S(V)^*n)\to\mathrm{aut}_G(S(V)^*(n+1))\to\cdotsNEWLINE\]NEWLINE In particular, he proves that for any \(k\geq 1\) there exists some integer \(M>0\) such that it depends only on \(V\) and that the order of \(\pi_k(\mathrm{aut}_G(S(V)^*n))\) is less than or equal to \(M\) for all sufficiently large \(n\). The proof is based on the analysis of the equivariant Lefshetz duality of Bredon (co)homology and the Barrat-Federer spectral sequence of mapping spaces.