Hopkins–Smith vanishing conjecture for the Adams–Novikov vanishing curve

Let gBP(n)g_{\mathrm{BP}}(n) be the EE_\infty vanishing curve of the Adams–Novikov spectral sequence, defined by

gBP(n)=max{sANEs,k+s0 for some kn}.g_{\mathrm{BP}}(n)=\max\{s\mid {}^{\mathrm{AN}}E_\infty^{s,k+s}\neq0\text{ for some }k\leq n\}.

Hopkins–Smith vanishing conjecture. The vanishing curve satisfies

gBP(n)=n12+o(1).g_{\mathrm{BP}}(n)=n^{\frac12+o(1)}.

A strong form of the nilpotence theorem gives sublinear growth, while this conjecture predicts the leading-order asymptotics; the supplied text does not state a resolution.

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Robert Burklund and Andrew Senger, “How Big are the Stable Homotopy Groups of Spheres?”, arXiv:2203.00670 (2022).

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