On periodic families in the stable stems of height two

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Main Authors: Carrick, Christian, Davies, Jack Morgan
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Published: 2025
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author Carrick, Christian
Davies, Jack Morgan
author_facet Carrick, Christian
Davies, Jack Morgan
contents We discover a host of infinite periodic families in the 2-primary stable homotopy groups of spheres. We also confirm the existence of many families predicted by Hopkins--Mahowald. These families appear in nineteen different congruence classes of degrees modulo 192, seven of them consist of simple 4-torsion elements, and another four of simple 8-torsion. They all vanish in the homotopy groups of the spectrum TMF of topological modular forms, but we show that they are detected in the fixed-points of TMF with respect to an Atkin--Lehner involution. As a consequence, we confirm the existence of exotic spheres in all dimensions congruent to 72, 144, and 168 modulo 192.
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spellingShingle On periodic families in the stable stems of height two
Carrick, Christian
Davies, Jack Morgan
Algebraic Topology
K-Theory and Homology
55T05, 55T15, 55T25, 55N20, 55P42, 55N34, 55Q10, 55Q51
We discover a host of infinite periodic families in the 2-primary stable homotopy groups of spheres. We also confirm the existence of many families predicted by Hopkins--Mahowald. These families appear in nineteen different congruence classes of degrees modulo 192, seven of them consist of simple 4-torsion elements, and another four of simple 8-torsion. They all vanish in the homotopy groups of the spectrum TMF of topological modular forms, but we show that they are detected in the fixed-points of TMF with respect to an Atkin--Lehner involution. As a consequence, we confirm the existence of exotic spheres in all dimensions congruent to 72, 144, and 168 modulo 192.
title On periodic families in the stable stems of height two
topic Algebraic Topology
K-Theory and Homology
55T05, 55T15, 55T25, 55N20, 55P42, 55N34, 55Q10, 55Q51
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20507