Conjecture on the orientability order of the universal complex line bundle for EO-theory

Let Γ\Gamma be a formal group of height n=(p1)kn=(p-1)k, and let C\mathbb{C} denote the complex line bundle appearing in the definition of the orientability order Θ\Theta. Orientability-order conjecture.

Θ(EOΓ,C)=pk.\Theta(\mathrm{EO}_{\Gamma},\mathbb{C})=p^k.

This conjectures the exact value of the EOΓ\mathrm{EO}_{\Gamma}-orientability order in the case that the height is divisible by p1p-1. Previously known results give non-sharp bounds in some cases, including height p1p-1 and at the prime 22, so the asserted equality remains open here.

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Prasit Bhattacharya and Hood Chatham, “On the EO-orientability of vector bundles”, arXiv:2003.03795 (2021).

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