On the slice spectral sequence

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Abstract: We introduce a variant of the slice spectral sequence which uses only regular slice cells, and state the precise relationship between the two spectral sequences. We analyze how the slice filtration of an equivariant spectrum that is concentrated over a normal subgroup is related to the slice filtration of its geometric fixed points, and use this to prove a conjecture of Hill on the slice filtration of an Eilenberg MacLane spectrum. We also show how the (co)connectivity of a spectrum results in the (co)connectivity of its slice tower, demonstrating the "efficiency" of the slice spectral sequence.


This paper develops a variant of the slice spectral sequence of Hill, Hopkins and Ravenel. The slice spectral sequence is the spectral sequence of the slice filtration of the homotopy category of genuine \(G\)-spectra (where \(G\) is a finite group). The slice filtration is defined using the slice cells of dimension \(k\), which are the following collection of spectra: \(G_+ \wedge_H S^{n \rho_H}\) for \(n |H|=k\) and \(G_+ \wedge_H S^{n \rho_H-1}\) for \(n |H|-1=k\) (\(\rho_H\) is the real regular representation of \(H\), a subgroup of \(G\)). In this paper the author considers the filtration obtained by using only those cells of the form: \(G_+ \wedge_H S^{n \rho_H}\) for \(n |H|=k\). The corresponding spectral sequence is called the regular slice spectral sequence. This variant is carefully analysed and compared to the original. As an application two conjectures of Hill on slice towers are proven. The first concerns spectra whose homotopy groups are concentrated over a normal subgroup of \(G\). The second concerns the slices of Eilenberg-Mac Lane spectra. The paper concludes with some results relating the (co)connectivity a spectrum with the (co)connectivity of its slice tower.











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