Wrochna's index conjecture for products of Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-spaces

Let XX and YY be Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-spaces, with product equipped with the diagonal Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-action, and let ind(X)\operatorname{ind}(X) denote the index of a Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-space. Wrochna's index conjecture. For all Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-spaces XX and YY,

ind(X×Y)=min{ind(X),ind(Y)}.\operatorname{ind}(X\times Y)=\min\{\operatorname{ind}(X),\operatorname{ind}(Y)\}.

The conjecture remains open in general; the source notes that it holds if one factor is a sphere and that the cases of spheres of dimensions 00 and 11 follow from multiplicativity of K2K_2 and K3K_3.

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Xuding Zhu, “A survey on Hedetniemi's conjecture”, arXiv:2502.16078 (2025).

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