Barratt's exponent conjecture for double suspensions

Let pp be a prime, let XX be a pointed space, and let YY be a space. Suppose that f ⁣:Σ2XYf\colon \Sigma^2X\longrightarrow Y has order prp^r in [Σ2X,Y][\Sigma^2X,Y].

Barratt's exponent conjecture. The image of the induced map

f ⁣:π(Σ2X)π(Y)f_*\colon\pi_*(\Sigma^2X)\longrightarrow\pi_*(Y)

should be annihilated by pr+1p^{r+1}; equivalently,

pr+1Im(f)=0.p^{r+1}\operatorname{Im}(f_*)=0.

This conjecture predicts that the order of a map from a double suspension controls the torsion in the homotopy groups detected by that map. In particular, when the identity of Σ2X\Sigma^2X has order prp^r, it implies that the mod-pp homotopy exponent of Σ2X\Sigma^2X is pr+1p^{r+1}.

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Primary source

Jelena Grbic and Jie Wu, “Applications of combinatorial groups to Hopf invariant and the exponent problem”, arXiv:math/0602204 (2009).

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