Periodic self maps and thick ideals in the stable motivic homotopy category over C at odd primes

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Abstract: In this article we study thick ideals defined by periodic self maps in the stable motivic homotopy category over mathbbC. In addition, we extend some results of Ruth Joachimi about the relation between thick ideals defined by motivic Morava K-theories and the preimages of the thick ideals in the stable homotopy category under Betti realization.


In this paper, the author studies thick subcategories of the stable motivic homotopy category \(\mathcal{SH}(\mathbb{C})\) over the base field \(\mathbb{C}\), building upon work of Ruth Joachimi [\textit{R. Joachimi}, Springer Proc. Math. Stat. 309, 109--219 (2020; Zbl 1475.55023)] and in relation to the thick subcategory theorem [\textit{M. J. Hopkins} and \textit{J. H. Smith}, Ann. Math. (2) 148, No. 1, 1--49 (1998; Zbl 0924.55010)] of classical stable homotopy theory. More precisely, he works with quasi-finite cellular spectra, locally with respect to an odd prime \(\ell\) or after completion. Betti realization yields \(R : \mathcal{SH}(\mathbb{C})^{qfin}_{(\ell)} \rightarrow \mathcal{SH}_{(\ell)}^{fin}\) to the localization of the classical stable homotopy category of finite spectra and one also has the `constant sheaf' functor \(c : \mathcal{SH}_{(\ell)}^{fin} \rightarrow \mathcal{SH}(\mathbb{C})^{qfin}_{(\ell)}\). This gives, for \(\mathcal{C}_n \subset \mathcal{SH}_{(\ell)}^{fin}\) the thick subcategory of type \(n\) spectra, the tensor ideals \[ \mathrm{thickid} (c \mathcal{C}_n) \subseteq R^{-1} (\mathcal{C}_n). \] Joachimi pointed out that there are more thick tensor ideals in the motivic setting. Moreover, nilpotence is more delicate: for example, the motivic \(\eta\) is not nilpotent. She defined the thick ideal \(\mathcal{C}_{AK(n)}\) as the spectra for which \(AK(n)_{**}(-)\) vanishes, for \(AK(n)\) the \(n\)th algebraic Morava \(K\)-theory, and showed that \[\mathcal{C}_{AK(n+1)} \subseteq \mathcal{C}_{AK(n)} \subseteq R^{-1} (\mathcal{C}_{n+1}).\] The author first considers the full subcategory of \(\mathcal{SH}(\mathbb{C})^{qfin}_{(\ell)}\) (or its \(\ell\)-complete variant) admitting a motivic \(v_n\)-self map. Assuming that a motivic nilpotence conjecture holds (this only involves certain bidegrees), he proves that this subcategory is thick. To construct examples of motivic \(v_n\)-self maps (in the \(\ell\)-complete setting), he considers Joachimi's motivic spectrum \(\mathbb{X}_n\), a motivic counterpart of Smith's type \(n\) spectrum. Joachimi showed that \(AK(s)_{**}(\mathbb{X}_n)\) vanishes for \(s<n\) and is non-zero for \(s=n\). The author shows that \(AK(n)_{**}(\mathbb{X}_n)\) is free over \(AK(n)_{**}\), which allows the calculation of \(AK(n)_{**}(D \mathbb{X}_n \wedge \mathbb{X}_n)\) by Künneth. A motivic Adams spectral sequence adaptation of the classical argument then yields a motivic \(v_n\)-self map. To deal with non-nilpotence of motivic \(\eta\), it is natural to smash with the cone \(C_\eta\), thus considering the thick ideals \(\mathrm{thickid}(C_\eta) \cap \mathcal{C}_{AK(n)}\). The author proves that \(C_\eta \wedge \mathbb{X}_{n+1}\) lies in \(\mathcal{C}_{AK(n)}\) but not in \(\mathcal{C}_{AK(n+1)}\), showing that these thick ideals are nonzero and distinct. Finally he shows that the inclusion \(\mathcal{C}_{AK(1)} \subsetneq R^{-1}(\mathcal{C}_2)\) is proper and that \(\mathrm{thickid} (c \mathcal{C}_2)\not \subset \mathcal{C}_{AK(1)}\) (this corrects an assertion of Joachimi's). He indicates that the argument also applies for higher chromatic \(n\).











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