Moore's conjecture on rational hyperbolicity and homotopy exponents

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Let XX be a simply-connected finite CWCW-complex. A space is rationally hyperbolic when its rational homotopy groups grow exponentially, and cexpp(X)cexp_p(X) denotes its homotopy exponent at the prime pp, with cexpp(X)=cinftycexp_p(X)=cinfty when the pp-torsion in cpi(X)cpi_*(X) has unbounded order.

Moore's conjecture. The following are equivalent:

X is rationally hyperbolic;X\text{ is rationally hyperbolic}; expp(X)= for some prime p;\exp_p(X)=\infty\text{ for some prime }p; expp(X)= for all primes p.\exp_p(X)=\infty\text{ for all primes }p.

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-prp^r Moore spaces when p>2p>2 or r>1r>1, but remains open for mod-22 Moore spaces and is otherwise unresolved in general.

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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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