Adams's detection conjecture for mod- cohomology of compact Lie groups
Adams's detection conjecture for mod- cohomology of compact Lie groups
Let be a compact connected Lie group, let be an odd prime, and let represent the conjugacy classes of maximal elementary abelian -subgroups of . Consider the restriction map
Adams's detection conjecture. For every compact connected Lie group and every odd prime , the map is injective. This strengthens Quillen's result that the kernel contains only nilpotent elements. The paper's abstract states that the conjecture has counterexamples for suitable projective unitary groups, so the claim is refuted.
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Primary source
Feifei Fan, “A counterexample to a conjecture of Adams”, arXiv:2501.07797 (2026).
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