The characterization of 1-connected compact metric spaces by snowflake kernels

Let 4M144\mathcal{M}^14 denote the collection of all 11-connected compact metric spaces, and let 4Sp44\mathfrak{S}_p4 be the operator whose kernel consists of the spaces mapped to the zero space under the pp-metric construction. Then the characterization conjecture.

M1=p>1ker(Sp).\mathcal{M}^1=\mathop{\bigcap}_{p>1}\ker(\mathfrak{S}_p).

The preceding results establish strict inclusions among the kernels 4ker(Sp)44\ker(\mathfrak{S}_p)4 for different values of pp, but do not determine this intersection. The conjecture proposes that it is exactly the class of all 11-connected compact metric spaces.

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Facundo Mémoli and Zhengchao Wan, “On p-metric spaces and the p-Gromov-Hausdorff distance”, arXiv:1912.00564 (2021).

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