Singer's injectivity conjecture for the algebraic transfer
Singer's injectivity conjecture for the algebraic transfer
Let be the Steenrod algebra over , and let denote the algebraic transfer in homology degree .
Singer's conjecture. The homomorphism
is one-to-one for every .
Singer's conjecture concerns injectivity of the algebraic transfer, a map relating coinvariants in the cohomology of elementary abelian 2-groups to over the Steenrod algebra. It is known in low homological degrees, including and , but the paper states that it fails in bidegree , so the conjecture is refuted.
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Primary source
Dang Vo Phuc, “Geometric realization via unoriented bordism and a counterexample to Singer's conjecture for the sixth algebraic transfer”, arXiv:2509.09455 (2026).
Additional references
14 papers in this index state this conjecture (2009–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2506.10232, arXiv:2505.23218, arXiv:2412.02494, arXiv:2408.06669, arXiv:2408.15120, arXiv:2203.03703, arXiv:2106.10630, arXiv:2106.14605, arXiv:2106.14606, arXiv:2103.04393, arXiv:1609.02250, arXiv:1609.03006, and 1 more.
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