Peterson's hit problem conjecture
Peterson's hit problem conjecture
Let be the polynomial algebra on variables over , equipped with the action of the Steenrod algebra . For a positive integer , write its -adic expansion as with , and set . Peterson's conjecture. Every homogeneous polynomial of degree in variables is in the image of the Steenrod algebra if and only if . Over this conjecture was proved by Wood, and later for the symmetric algebras corresponding to classifying spaces of orthogonal groups by Janfada and Wood; however, it is not true for odd primes in general.
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Dang Vo Phuc, “A note on the hit problem for the polynomial algebra in the case of odd primes and its application”, arXiv:2510.17908 (2025).
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