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Ravenel's Conjectures
In mathematics, the Ravenel conjectures are a set of mathematical conjectures in the field of stable homotopy theory posed by Douglas Ravenel at the end of a paper published in 1984. It was earlier circulated in preprint. The problems involved have largely been resolved, with all but the "telescope conjecture" being proved in later papers by others. Ravenel's conjectures exerted influence on the field through the founding of the approach of chromatic homotopy theory. The first of the seven conjectures, then the ''nilpotence conjecture'', was proved in 1988 and is now known as the nilpotence theorem. The telescope conjecture, which was fourth on the original list, remains of substantial interest because of its connection with the convergence of an Adams–Novikov spectral sequence. While opinion has been generally against the truth of the original statement, investigations of associated phenomena (for a triangulated category in general) have become a research area in its own right. ...
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Mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many areas of mathematics, which include number theory (the study of numbers), algebra (the study of formulas and related structures), geometry (the study of shapes and spaces that contain them), Mathematical analysis, analysis (the study of continuous changes), and set theory (presently used as a foundation for all mathematics). Mathematics involves the description and manipulation of mathematical object, abstract objects that consist of either abstraction (mathematics), abstractions from nature orin modern mathematicspurely abstract entities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. Mathematics uses pure reason to proof (mathematics), prove properties of objects, a ''proof'' consisting of a succession of applications of in ...
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Stable Homotopy Theory
In mathematics, stable homotopy theory is the part of homotopy theory (and thus algebraic topology) concerned with all structure and phenomena that remain after sufficiently many applications of the suspension functor. A founding result was the Freudenthal suspension theorem, which states that given any pointed space X, the homotopy groups \pi_(\Sigma^n X) stabilize for n sufficiently large. In particular, the homotopy groups of spheres \pi_(S^n) stabilize for n\ge k + 2. For example, :\langle \text_\rangle = \Z = \pi_1(S^1)\cong \pi_2(S^2)\cong \pi_3(S^3)\cong\cdots :\langle \eta \rangle = \Z = \pi_3(S^2)\to \pi_4(S^3)\cong \pi_5(S^4)\cong\cdots In the two examples above all the maps between homotopy groups are applications of the suspension functor. The first example is a standard corollary of the Hurewicz theorem, that \pi_n(S^n)\cong \Z. In the second example the Hopf map, \eta, is mapped to its suspension \Sigma\eta, which generates \pi_4(S^3)\cong \Z/2. One of the mo ...
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Douglas Ravenel
Douglas Conner Ravenel (born February 17, 1947) is an American mathematician known for work in algebraic topology. Life Ravenel received his PhD from Brandeis University in 1972 under the direction of Edgar H. Brown, Jr. with a thesis on exotic characteristic classes of spherical fibrations. From 1971 to 1973 he was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1974/75 he visited the Institute for Advanced Study. He became an assistant professor at Columbia University in 1973 and at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1976, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1978 and professor in 1981. From 1977 to 1979 he was a Sloan Fellow. Since 1988 he has been a professor at the University of Rochester. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki, 1978, and is an editor of The New York Journal of Mathematics since 1994. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2022 he ...
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Annals Of Mathematics
The ''Annals of Mathematics'' is a mathematical journal published every two months by Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. History The journal was established as ''The Analyst'' in 1874 and with Joel E. Hendricks as the founding editor-in-chief. It was "intended to afford a medium for the presentation and analysis of any and all questions of interest or importance in pure and applied Mathematics, embracing especially all new and interesting discoveries in theoretical and practical astronomy, mechanical philosophy, and engineering". It was published in Des Moines, Iowa, and was the earliest American mathematics journal to be published continuously for more than a year or two. This incarnation of the journal ceased publication after its tenth year, in 1883, giving as an explanation Hendricks' declining health, but Hendricks made arrangements to have it taken over by new management, and it was continued from March 1884 as the ''Annals of Mathematics''. T ...
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Chromatic Homotopy Theory
In mathematics, chromatic homotopy theory is a subfield of stable homotopy theory that studies complex-oriented cohomology theory, complex-oriented cohomology theories from the "chromatic" point of view, which is based on Daniel Quillen, Quillen's work relating cohomology theories to formal groups. In this picture, theories are classified in terms of their "chromatic levels"; i.e., the heights of the formal groups that define the theories via the Landweber exact functor theorem. Typical theories it studies include: complex K-theory, elliptic cohomology, Morava K-theory and Topological modular forms, tmf. Chromatic convergence theorem In algebraic topology, the chromatic convergence theorem states the homotopy limit of the chromatic tower (defined below) of a finite local spectrum, ''p''-local spectrum X is X itself. The theorem was proved by Hopkins and Ravenel. Statement Let L_ denotes the Bousfield localization with respect to the Morava E-theory and let X be a finite, p-loca ...
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Nilpotence Theorem
In algebraic topology, the nilpotence theorem gives a condition for an element in the homotopy groups of a ring spectrum to be nilpotent, in terms of the complex cobordism spectrum \mathrm. More precisely, it states that for any ring spectrum R, the kernel of the map \pi_\ast R \to \mathrm_\ast(R) consists of nilpotent elements. It was conjectured by and proved by . Nishida's theorem showed that elements of positive degree of the homotopy groups of spheres In the mathematical field of algebraic topology, the homotopy groups of spheres describe how spheres of various dimensions can wrap around each other. They are examples of topological invariants, which reflect, in algebraic terms, the structure ... are nilpotent. This is a special case of the nilpotence theorem. See also * Ravenel's conjectures References * * . Open online version.* Further reading Connection of ''X(n)'' spectra to formal group laws Homotopy theory Theorems in algebraic topology {{Topolog ...
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Adams–Novikov Spectral Sequence
In mathematics, the Adams spectral sequence is a spectral sequence introduced by which computes the stable homotopy groups of topological spaces. Like all spectral sequences, it is a computational tool; it relates homology theory to what is now called stable homotopy theory. It is a reformulation using homological algebra, and an extension, of a technique called 'killing homotopy groups' applied by the French school of Henri Cartan and Jean-Pierre Serre. Motivation For everything below, once and for all, we fix a prime ''p''. All spaces are assumed to be CW complexes. The ordinary cohomology groups H^*(X) are understood to mean H^*(X; \Z/p\Z). The primary goal of algebraic topology is to try to understand the collection of all maps, up to homotopy, between arbitrary spaces ''X'' and ''Y''. This is extraordinarily ambitious: in particular, when ''X'' is S^n, these maps form the ''n''th homotopy group of ''Y''. A more reasonable (but still very difficult!) goal is to understand t ...
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Triangulated Category
In mathematics, a triangulated category is a category with the additional structure of a "translation functor" and a class of "exact triangles". Prominent examples are the derived category of an abelian category, as well as the stable homotopy category. The exact triangles generalize the short exact sequences in an abelian category, as well as fiber sequences and cofiber sequences in topology. Much of homological algebra is clarified and extended by the language of triangulated categories, an important example being the theory of sheaf cohomology. In the 1960s, a typical use of triangulated categories was to extend properties of sheaves on a space ''X'' to complexes of sheaves, viewed as objects of the derived category of sheaves on ''X''. More recently, triangulated categories have become objects of interest in their own right. Many equivalences between triangulated categories of different origins have been proved or conjectured. For example, the homological mirror symmetry c ...
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Tomer Schlank
Tomer Moshe Schlank (; born 1982) is an Israeli mathematician and a professor at The University of Chicago. Previously, he was a professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He primarily works in homotopy theory, algebraic geometry, and number theory. In 2022 he won the Erdős prize in mathematics and in 2023 he was awarded a European Research Council consolidator grant. He is an editor for the Israel Journal of Mathematics. Biography Schlank was born on July 29, 1982, in Jerusalem, Israel. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Tel Aviv University in 2001 and a master's degree from Tel Aviv University in 2008. He received his PhD from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in January, 2013, working under the supervision of Ehud de Shalit. His education was also influenced by the close proximity of David Kazhdan and Emmanuel Dror Farjoun. After completing his PhD, Schlank was hired as a Simons postdoctoral fellow at MIT. Afterwards he moved back to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem ...
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ArXiv
arXiv (pronounced as "archive"—the X represents the Chi (letter), Greek letter chi ⟨χ⟩) is an open-access repository of electronic preprints and postprints (known as e-prints) approved for posting after moderation, but not Scholarly peer review, peer reviewed. It consists of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, electrical engineering, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, mathematical finance, and economics, which can be accessed online. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific papers are self-archiving, self-archived on the arXiv repository before publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Some publishers also grant permission for authors to archive the peer-reviewed postprint. Begun on August 14, 1991, arXiv.org passed the half-million-article milestone on October 3, 2008, had hit a million by the end of 2014 and two million by the end of 2021. As of November 2024, the submission rate is about 24,000 arti ...
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Homotopy Groups Of Spheres
In the mathematical field of algebraic topology, the homotopy groups of spheres describe how spheres of various dimensions can wrap around each other. They are examples of topological invariants, which reflect, in algebraic terms, the structure of spheres viewed as topological spaces, forgetting about their precise geometry. Unlike homology groups, which are also topological invariants, the homotopy groups are surprisingly complex and difficult to compute. The -dimensional unit sphere — called the -sphere for brevity, and denoted as — generalizes the familiar circle () and the ordinary sphere (). The -sphere may be defined geometrically as the set of points in a Euclidean space of dimension located at a unit distance from the origin. The -th ''homotopy group'' summarizes the different ways in which the -dimensional sphere can be mapped continuously into the sphere . This summary does not distinguish between two mappings if one can be continuously deformed to the oth ...
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Homotopy Theory
In mathematics, homotopy theory is a systematic study of situations in which Map (mathematics), maps can come with homotopy, homotopies between them. It originated as a topic in algebraic topology, but nowadays is learned as an independent discipline. Applications to other fields of mathematics Besides algebraic topology, the theory has also been used in other areas of mathematics such as: * Algebraic geometry (e.g., A1 homotopy theory, A1 homotopy theory) * Category theory (specifically the study of higher category theory, higher categories) Concepts Spaces and maps In homotopy theory and algebraic topology, the word "space" denotes a topological space. In order to avoid Pathological (mathematics), pathologies, one rarely works with arbitrary spaces; instead, one requires spaces to meet extra constraints, such as being Category of compactly generated weak Hausdorff spaces, compactly generated weak Hausdorff or a CW complex. In the same vein as above, a "Map (mathematics), ...
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