Chromatic redshift conjecture for complex and quaternionic Mahowald invariants
Let be a type finite complex with a -periodic self-map , and let denote the relevant dimension for . Suppose that is -periodic. Let be the corresponding complex or quaternionic Mahowald-invariant coset.
Chromatic redshift conjecture. If , then consists entirely of -torsion elements. If is a power of annihilating every element of , and , so that has type and every element of extends to a map from to a suitable sphere, then at least one of these maps is -periodic.
This is proposed as a generalization of the Mahowald–Ravenel redshift conjecture. The surrounding discussion says that the earlier conjecture is supported by low-height computations, while the proposed complex and quaternionic generalization remains open.
References
Primary source
Boris Botvinnik and J. D. Quigley, “Symmetries of exotic spheres via complex and quaternionic Mahowald invariants”, arXiv:2309.04275 (2025).
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