Mod-p cohomological rigidity conjecture for classifying spaces of compact Lie groups

Let GG be a compact connected Lie group, let XX be a pp-complete space, and let Ap\mathcal{A}_p denote the mod-pp Steenrod algebra. Suppose that

H(X;Fp)H(BG;Fp)H^*(X;\mathbb F_p)\cong H^*(BG;\mathbb F_p)

as algebras over Ap\mathcal{A}_p. Cohomological rigidity conjecture. Then

XBGp.X\simeq BG_p^{\wedge}.

The claim asks whether the mod-pp Steenrod-algebra cohomology of a compact Lie group's classifying space determines its pp-completion among pp-complete spaces. The paper states this as a conjecture and proves the corresponding rigidity result for G=PU(p)G=PU(p) when p>3p>3, extending earlier results for p=2,3p=2,3; no general resolution is supplied.

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Ales Vavpetic and Antonio Viruel, “On the mod p cohomology of BPU(p)”, arXiv:math/0312441 (2003).

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