Odd-primary algebraic transfer injectivity conjecture in ranks at most four

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Let VV be an elementary abelian group of rank hh, let pp be an odd prime, and let Ap\mathscr A_p be the mod-pp Steenrod algebra. The algebraic transfer is the homomorphism

TrhAp(Fp):(Fp⊗GL(h,Fp)Ann⁡Ap‾H∗(V;Fp))n⟶Ext⁡Aph,h+n(Fp,Fp).Tr_h^{\mathscr A_p}(\mathbb F_p): (\mathbb F_p\otimes_{GL(h,\mathbb F_p)}\operatorname{Ann}_{\overline{\mathscr A_p}}H_*(V;\mathbb F_p))_n\longrightarrow \operatorname{Ext}_{\mathscr A_p}^{h,h+n}(\mathbb F_p,\mathbb F_p).

Odd-primary transfer conjecture. The transfer homomorphism TrhAp(Fp)Tr_h^{\mathscr A_p}(\mathbb F_p) is one-to-one for any odd prime pp and 1≤h≤41\leq h\leq 4. This extends the known low-rank results at odd primes and is posed as an open problem.

References

Primary source

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).

Additional references

9 papers in this index state this conjecture (2009–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2505.21222, arXiv:2403.09515, arXiv:2011.12374, arXiv:1801.04189, arXiv:1801.00225, arXiv:1510.03598, arXiv:1405.3695, arXiv:0911.2808.

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