English

The Adams differentials on the $e$-family

Algebraic Topology 2026-02-25 v1

Abstract

The New Doomsday Conjecture (Minami, Amer. J. Math., 1995) states that, for any nonzero Sq0\mathrm{Sq}^0-family, only finitely many terms in this family survive to the EE_\infty-page. On the Adams 11 and 22-line, the conjecture, which corresponds to the Hopf invariant problem and the Kervaire invariant problem, were solved by Adams (Ann. of Math., 1960) and Hill-Hopkins-Ravenel (arXiv:0908.3724), respectively. On the Adams 33-line, Burklund and Xu (arXiv:2302.11869) established a family of nontrivial differentials on the hj3h_j^3 family, and in particular developed the Burklund-Xu Spectral Sequence, to study the non-triviality of its target on the Adams E2E_2-page. In this paper, we use the Burklund-Xu Spectral Sequence to establish the non-triviality of a product on the Adams 66-line. Combining this with Bruner's formula by Bruner et al. (LNM 1176, 1986), we prove the New Doomsday Conjecture for the ee-family on the Adams 44-line.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2602.20184,
  title  = {The Adams differentials on the $e$-family},
  author = {Runji Li and Yuxuan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.20184},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

10 pages, 2 figures

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