The finiteness conjecture for the exotic Picard group

Fix a prime pp and height nn. Let Picn\mathrm{Pic}_n be the Picard group of the K(n)K(n)-local category, let Picnalg\mathrm{Pic}_n^{\operatorname{alg}} be its algebraic analogue, and define the exotic Picard group

κn:=ker(PicnPicnalg).\kappa_n:=\ker\bigl(\mathrm{Pic}_n\longrightarrow\mathrm{Pic}_n^{\operatorname{alg}}\bigr).

Hopkins's exotic Picard-group conjecture. The group κn\kappa_n is a finite pp-group. The source notes that κn=0\kappa_n=0 when 2(p1)n22(p-1)\geq n^2, while it is nontrivial in many other cases; the stated finiteness assertion remains unresolved in general.

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Tobias Barthel and Agnès Beaudry, “Chromatic structures in stable homotopy theory”, arXiv:1901.09004 (2019).

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