Eventual 4-periodicity conjecture for CpC_p-Mackey functors

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Let pp be prime and let MM be a CpC_p-Mackey functor. A projective resolution of MM is eventually 44-periodic if its differentials repeat with period 44 from some point onward. Eventual 4-periodicity conjecture. Every CpC_p-Mackey functor admits an eventually 44-periodic projective resolution. This is motivated by the 22-periodicity of projective resolutions for CpC_p-modules and by experiments with 1000 randomly generated CpC_p-Mackey functors over various primes. The conjecture is presented as an experimental expectation, and no proof or disproof is given in the source.

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Primary source

Thomas Brazelton, David Chan, Benjamin Mudrak, Ben Spitz, Chase Vogeli, Chenglu Wang, Michael R. Zeng and Sasha Zotine, “C_p-Mackey functors in Macaulay2”, arXiv:2509.05456 (2025).

Additional references

8 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2401.17386, arXiv:2309.09447, arXiv:1611.01196, arXiv:1511.04035, arXiv:1509.06093, arXiv:1302.1298, arXiv:1207.6072.

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