Bounding size of homotopy groups of spheres

DOI10.1017/S001309152000036XMaRDI QIDQ5145120zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Guy Boyde

Publication date 20 January 2021

Published in Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11872

zbMATH Keywords

EHP sequencehomotopy groups of spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy groups of spheres (55Q40)

Abstract: Let $p$ be prime. We prove that, for $n$ odd, the $p$-torsion part of $p{i}_q(S^n)$ has cardinality at most $p^{2^{frac1p-1(q-n+3-2p)}}$, and hence has rank at most $2^{frac1p-1(q-n+3-2p)}$. For $p=2$ these results also hold for $n$ even. The best bounds proven in the existing literature are $p^{2^{q-n+1}}$ and $2^{q-n+1}$ respectively, both due to Hans-Werner Henn. The main point of our result is therefore that the bound grows more slowly for larger primes. As a corollary of work of Henn, we obtain a similar result for the homotopy groups of a broader class of spaces.

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