Periodic phenomena in the Adams-Novikov spectral sequence
Periodic phenomena in the Adams-Novikov spectral sequence
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DOI:
10.2307/1971064
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发表时间:
1977-11
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
H. Miller;D. Ravenel;W. Wilson
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作者:
H. Miller;D. Ravenel;W. Wilson
The problem of understanding the stable homotopy ring has long been one of the touchstones of algebraic topology. Low dimensional computation has proceeded slowly and has given little insight into the general structure of 7ws(S0). In recent years, however, infinite families of elements of 7rs (S0) have been discovered, generalizing the image of the Whitehead J-homomorphism. In this work we indicate a general program for the detection and description of elements lying in such infinite families. This approach shows that every homotopy class is, in some attenuated sense, a member of such a family. For our algebraic grip on homotopy theory we shall employ S. P. Novikov's analogue of the Adams spectral sequence converging to the stable homotopy ring. Its E2-term can be described algebraically as the cohomology of the Landweber-Novikov algebra of stable operations in complex cobordism. In his seminal work on the subject, Novikov computed the first cohomology group and showed that it was canonically isomorphic to the image of J away from the prime 2. When localized at an odd prime p these elements occur only every 2(p 1) dimensions; so this first cohomology group has a periodic character. Our intention here is to show that the entire cohomology is built up in a very specific way from periodic constituents. Our central application of these ideas is the computation of the second cohomology group at odd primes. By virtue of the Adams-Novikov spectral sequence this information has a number of homotopy-theoretic consequences. The homotopy classes St, t > 1, in the p-component of the (2(p2 1)t 2(p 1) 2)-stem for p > 3, constructed by L. Smith, are detected here. Indeed, it turns out that all elements with Adams-Novikov filtration exactly 2 are closely related to the , family. The lowest dimensional elements of filtration 2 aside from the fi family itself are the elements denoted ej by Toda. The computation of the