v₁-periodic 2-exponents of SU(2e) and SU(2e+1)

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2012.01.001MaRDI QIDQ456810zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Donald M. Davis

Publication date 16 October 2012

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4882

zbMATH Keywords

\(\nu_1\)-periodic homotopy groupshomotopy 2-exponentspecial unitary groupsStirling numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bell and Stirling numbers (11B73) (v_n)-periodicity (55Q51) Homotopy groups of special spaces (55Q52)

Abstract: We determine precisely the largest v1-periodic homotopy groups of SU(2^e) and SU(2^e + 1). This gives new results about the largest actual homotopy groups of these spaces. Our proof relies on results about 2-divisibility of restricted sums of binomial coefficients times powers proved by the author in a companion paper.

Review text

Let \(n\) be a natural number and let \(\nu(n)\) denote the exponent of \(2\) in \(n\). Let NEWLINE\[NEWLINET_j(k)=\sum_{\mathrm{odd}\;i}{j\choose i}i^kNEWLINE\]NEWLINE denote a family of partial Stirling numbers. Suppose \(\mathbf{e}(k,n)=\min\{ \nu(T_j(k): j\geq n\}\) and \(\overline{\mathbf{e}}(n)= \max\{\mathbf{e}(k,n): k\in \mathbb{Z}\}\). The author mentions that \(\overline{\mathbf{e}}(n)\) is what we might call the \(\upsilon_1\)-periodic \(2\)-exponent of \(SU(n)\), where \(SU(n)\) is the special unitary group of degree \(n\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe main theorem of the paper under review which verifies a conjecture of the author's paper [Integers 8, No. 1, Article A56, 25 p., electronic only (2008; Zbl 1232.11034)] is as follows.NEWLINENEWLINETheorem. {\parindent=6mm\begin{itemize}\item[(a)] If \(e\geq 3\), then \(\mathbf{e}(k,2^e)\leq 2^e+2^{e-1}-1\) with equality occurring iff \(k\equiv 2^e-1\;\mathrm{mod}\;2^{2^{e-1}+e-1}\). \item[(b)] If \(e\geq 2\), then \(\mathbf{e}(k,2^e+1)\leq 2^e+2^{e-1}\) with equality occurring iff \(k\equiv 2^e+2^{2^{e-1}+e-1}\;\mathrm{mod}\;2^{2^{e-1}+e}\). NEWLINENEWLINE\end{itemize}} The homotopy \(2\)-exponent of a topological space \(X\), denoted \(\exp_2(X)\), is the largest \(k\) such that \(\pi_*(X)\) contains an element of order \(2^k\). An immediate consequence of the main theorem of the paper is as follows.NEWLINENEWLINECorollary. For \(\epsilon=\{0,1\}\) and \(2^e+\epsilon\geq 5\), NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \exp_2(SU(2^e+\epsilon))\geq 2^e+2^{e-1}-1+\epsilon .NEWLINE\]

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