Exponent and cell structure of the \(\nu_1\)-periodic spectra associated to exceptional Lie groups (Q536498)

Bousfield introduced a functor \(\Phi\) from the homotopy category of pointed \(CW\)-complexes to the category of \(v_1\)-periodic spectra, which satisfies \(\pi_*(\Phi X)=v_1^{-1}\pi_*(X;p)\), the \(p\)-components of the \(v_1\)-periodic homotopy groups of \(X\). The \(p\)-exponent of a spectrum \(E\) is the order of the identity in the homotopy group \([E, E]_0\). Fisher proved a conjecture of Bousfield on the value of the \(p\)-exponent of \(\Phi SU(n)\). In this paper, the author determines the \(p\)-exponents of \(\Phi X\), and shows that \(\Phi X\) is built up by fibrations of \(\Phi S^{2i+1}\)'s, for all exceptional Lie groups \(X\) and odd primes \(p\). These results are based on the structure of \(K^1(\Phi X)=PK^1(X)/\psi^p\) determined by computation of the Adams operations whose complicated parts were done by use of Maple.