The adjacency conjecture for X(n) and X(n+1)

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Let X(n)X(n) denote the standard spectra in the Ravenel sequence, and let ⟨E⟩\langle E\rangle denote the Bousfield class of a spectrum EE.

X(n)-adjacency conjecture. The spectra X(n)X(n) and X(n+1)X(n+1) are adjacent in the Bousfield lattice: if

⟨E⟩>⟨X(n+1)⟩,\langle E\rangle>\langle X(n+1)\rangle,

then

⟨E⟩≥⟨X(n)⟩.\langle E\rangle\geq\langle X(n)\rangle.

The source uses this conjecture to derive consequences for acyclic complements and related Bousfield classes, but gives no resolution.

References

Primary source

Mark Hovey and John Palmieri, “The structure of the Bousfield lattice”, arXiv:math/9801103 (1998).

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