Higher chromatic Thom spectra via unstable homotopy theory

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Abstract: We investigate implications of an old conjecture in unstable homotopy theory related to the Cohen-Moore-Neisendorfer theorem and a conjecture about the mathbfE2-topological Hochschild cohomology of certain Thom spectra (denoted A, B, and T(n)) related to Ravenel's X(pn). We show that these conjectures imply that the orientations mathrmMSpinomathrmko and mathrmMStringomathrmtmf admit spectrum-level splittings. This is shown by generalizing a theorem of Hopkins and Mahowald, which constructs mathrmHmathbfFp as a Thom spectrum, to construct mathrmBPlanglen1angle, mathrmko, and mathrmtmf as Thom spectra (albeit over T(n), A, and B respectively, and not over the sphere). This interpretation of mathrmBPlanglen1angle, mathrmko, and mathrmtmf offers a new perspective on Wood equivalences of the form mathrmbowedgeCetasimeqmathrmbu: they are related to the existence of certain EHP sequences in unstable homotopy theory. This construction of mathrmBPlanglen1angle also provides a different lens on the nilpotence theorem. Finally, we prove a C2-equivariant analogue of our construction, describing underlinemathrmHmathbfZ as a Thom spectrum.



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