The higher structure of unstable homotopy groups
Algebraic Topology
2025-02-24 v4
Abstract
We construct certain unstable higher-order homotopy operations indexed by the simplex categories of for and prove that all elements in the homotopy groups of a wedge of spheres are generated under such operations by Whitehead products and the group structure. This provides a stronger unstable analogue of Cohen's theorem on the decomposition of stable homotopy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2003.08842,
title = {The higher structure of unstable homotopy groups},
author = {Samik Basu and David Blanc and Debasis Sen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.08842},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
We would like to thank George Peschke for pointing out that the treatment of rational spaces was missing in Definition 0.2; we have accordingly added this case also to the proof of Theorem 3.1