Adams's detection conjecture for mod-pp cohomology of compact Lie groups

Let GG be a compact connected Lie group, let pp be an odd prime, and let Ep(G)\mathcal{E}_p(G) represent the conjugacy classes of maximal elementary abelian pp-subgroups of GG. Consider the restriction map

Φ:H(BG;Fp)EEp(G)H(BE;Fp).\Phi:H^*(BG;\mathbb{F}_p)\to\prod_{E\in\mathcal{E}_p(G)}H^*(BE;\mathbb{F}_p).

Adams's detection conjecture. For every compact connected Lie group GG and every odd prime pp, the map Φ\Phi 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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Feifei Fan, “A counterexample to a conjecture of Adams”, arXiv:2501.07797 (2026).

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