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

EX(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.

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Primary source

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

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