Moore's conjecture on rational hyperbolicity and homotopy exponents
Let be a simply-connected finite -complex. A space is rationally hyperbolic when its rational homotopy groups grow exponentially, and denotes its homotopy exponent at the prime , with when the -torsion in has unbounded order.
Moore's conjecture. The following are equivalent:
The conjecture connects the rational elliptic–hyperbolic dichotomy with the existence of torsion homotopy groups of arbitrarily high order. It is known for spheres and for mod- Moore spaces when or , but remains open for mod- Moore spaces and is otherwise unresolved in general.
References
Primary source
Ruizhi Huang, “Local hyperbolicity, inert maps and Moore's conjecture”, arXiv:2504.09787 (2026).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2007–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0708.2838.
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