Strong Barratt exponent conjecture for double loop maps

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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].

Strong Barratt exponent conjecture. The double loop map

Ω2f ⁣:Ω2Σ2XΩ2Y\Omega^2f\colon\Omega^2\Sigma^2X\longrightarrow\Omega^2Y

has order at most pr+1p^{r+1} in [Ω2Σ2X,Ω2Y][\Omega^2\Sigma^2X,\Omega^2Y]. This is the stronger multiplicative-exponent form of Barratt's conjecture: it concerns the order of the induced map between double loop spaces, rather than only the image on homotopy groups. The source presents it as a conjectural strengthening, and no resolution is supplied in the excerpt.

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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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