Curtis conjecture on spherical classes in H∗QS0H_*QS^0

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Let QS0=colim⁡iΩiSiQS^0=\operatorname{colim}_i\Omega^iS^i be the infinite loop space associated to the sphere spectrum. In positive degrees, consider the unstable Hurewicz homomorphism

h:2π∗s≃2π∗QS0⟶H∗QS0.h:{_2\pi_*^s}\simeq{_2\pi_*}QS^0\longrightarrow H_*QS^0.

Curtis conjecture. Only the Hopf invariant one and Kervaire invariant one elements survive under hh.

This conjecture concerns the spherical classes in the homology of the stable infinite loop space QS0QS^0 and predicts that the unstable Hurewicz image at the prime 22 is accounted for precisely by these two families of elements. The source gives no resolution, so its status is open.

References

Primary source

Hadi Zare, “Freudenthal theorem and spherical classes in H_*QS^0”, arXiv:1801.06427 (2018).

Additional references

7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1801.00735, arXiv:1801.07480, arXiv:1712.00752, arXiv:1609.03143, arXiv:1512.02040, arXiv:1504.06752.

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