The strong form of the mod-2 cohomology conjecture for decomposable Postnikov towers

Let EE be the homotopy fiber of a map ψ:XKp\psi:X\rightarrow K_p, where Kp=K(F2,p)K_p=K(\mathbb F_2,p), and write H(X)\mathrm{H}^*(X) for mod-22 singular cohomology. Let ιpHp(Kp)\iota_p\in \mathrm{H}^p(K_p) be the fundamental class, and let A\sqrt{A} denote the quotient of a graded algebra AA by its ideal of nilpotent elements. The map is assumed to represent a decomposable element ψ(ιp)Hp(X)\psi^*(\iota_p)\in \mathrm{H}^p(X).

Strong-form conjecture. As unstable algebras, one has

H(E)H(X)/(ψ(ιp))H(Kp1).\sqrt{\mathrm{H}^*(E)}\cong \sqrt{\mathrm{H}^*(X)/(\psi^*(\iota_p))}\otimes \mathrm{H}^*(K_{p-1}).

This strengthens the weak form by requiring the proposed isomorphism to preserve the unstable-algebra structure, not merely the graded-algebra structure. The preceding monomorphism and epimorphism motivate the conjecture, while the existence of such an unstable-algebra decomposition remains open.

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Nguyen The Cuong and Lionel Schwartz, “On the mod-2 cohomology of some 2-Postnikov towers”, arXiv:2005.09299 (2020).

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