Stably spherical classes in the K-homology of a finite group

DOI10.1007/BF02566773MaRDI QIDQ1123439zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Karlheinz Knapp

Publication date 1988

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/140128

zbMATH Keywords

Adams conjectureAdams operationBurnside ringcomplex K- theorymodular representation ringskeletal filtrationstable homotopy of the classifying space of finite p-group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological (K)-theory (55N15) Stable homotopy groups (55Q10) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) (K)-theory operations and generalized cohomology operations in algebraic topology (55S25)

Review text

For simplicity assume that p is an odd prime number, that G is a finite p-group, and that l generates \(({\mathbb{Z}}/p^ 2)^*\). If \(h_ k: \pi^ s_ n(BG)\to K_ n(BG)\) denotes the Hurewicz map induced by the unit map from the sphere spectrum to that of complex K-theory, then the author proves that for sufficiently large (odd) values of n \(Im(h_ k)=Ker(\psi^ l_ n-1).\) It is not hard to see that \(Im(h_ k)\) is invariant under the Adams operation, but the proof of equality depends on the truth of the Adams conjecture and knowledge of the skeletal filtration for \(K_ 1(BG)\). He also gives detailed calculations for some p-groups of low rank (such as \(C_{p^ 2})\), which serve to illustrate the complexity of the situation for small values of n. It seems to the reviewer that this paper becomes much more interesting when combined with the identification of \(Ker(\psi^ l_ n-1)\) with \(K{\mathbb{F}}_{l,n}(BG)\) and David Rector's (implicit) description of the latter group in terms of objects associated with the modular representation ring \(R{\mathbb{F}}_ l(G)\). Up to completion this gives a purely algebraic description of the stable homotopy groups \(\pi^ s_ n(BG)\), which (passing to cohomotopy) should be compared to that provided by the Burnside ring A(G).

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