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We study the mod-2 cohomology spectral sequence arising from delooping the Bousfield-Kan cosimplicial space giving the 2-nilpotent completion of a connective spectrum $X$. Under good conditions its $E_{2}$-term is computable as certain…

Let V(0) be the mod 2 Moore spectrum and let C be the supersingular elliptic curve over F_4 defined by the Weierstrass equation y^2+y=x^3. Let F_C be its formal group law and E_C be the spectrum classifying the deformations of F_C. The…

Let M(1) be the mod 2 Moore spectrum. J.F. Adams proved that M(1) admits a minimal v_1-self map v_1^4: Sigma^8 M(1) -> M(1). Let M(1,4) be the cofiber of this self-map. The purpose of this paper is to prove that M(1,4) admits a minimal…

A colleague asked about the Adams filtrations of the homotopy classes in the homotopy of the fiber of a particular map between GEMs. The theorem proved in arXiv:2105.02601v3 [math.AT] proves to be effective in answering this (Theorem 4.4).…

We compute the cotorsion product of the mod 2 cohomology of spinor group spin(n), which is the E_2-term of the Rothenberg-Steenrod spectral sequence for the mod 2 cohomology of the classifying space of the spinor group spin(n). As a…

Full level-n structures on smooth, complex curves are trivializations of the n-torsion points of their Jacobians. We give an algebraic proof that the etale cohomology of the moduli space of smooth, complex curves of genus at least 2 with…

In the 1980's, Mahowald and Kane used integral Brown--Gitler spectra to decompose $ku \wedge ku$ as a sum of finitely generated $ku$-module spectra. This splitting, along with an analogous decomposition of $ko \wedge ko,$ led to a great…

Mahowald's conjecture arose as part of a program attempting to view chromatic phenomena in stable homotopy theory through the lens of the classical Adams spectral sequence. The conjecture predicts the existence of nonzero classes in the…

It has been observed that certain localizations of the spectrum of topological modular forms are self-dual (Mahowald-Rezk, Gross-Hopkins). We provide an integral explanation of these results that is internal to the geometry of the…

We present progress in trying to verify a long-standing conjecture by Mark Mahowald on the $v_{1}$-periodic component of the classical Adams spectral sequence for a Moore space $M$. The approach we follow was proposed by John Palmieri in…

The Moore spectrum $\mathrm{M}_p(i)$ is the cofiber of the $p^{i}$ map on the sphere spectrum. For a fixed $p$ and $n$, we find a lower bound on $i$ for which $\mathrm{M}_p(i)$ is guaranteed to be $n$-fold associative. This bound depends on…

Consider the Tate twist $\tau \in H^{0,1}(S^{0,0})$ in the mod 2 cohomology of the motivic sphere. After 2-completion, the motivic Adams spectral sequence realizes this element as a map $\tau \colon S^{0,-1} \to S^{0,0}$, with cofiber…

The spectrum of a stable rank 2 vector bundle $E$ with $c_1 = 0$ on the projective 3-space is a finite sequence of positive integers $s(0)$, ..., $s(m)$ characterizing the Hilbert function of the graded $H^1$-module of $E$ in negative…

We compute the cohomology of the subalgebra $A^{C_2}(1)$ of the $C_2$-equivariant Steenrod algebra $A^{C_2}$. This serves as the input to the $C_2$-equivariant Adams spectral sequence converging to the $RO(C_2)$-graded homotopy groups of an…

We study $v_n$-periodic phenomena in $C_2$-equivariant stable homotopy through the lens of the $C_2$-equivariant Adams spectral sequence at the prime 2. In particular, we construct/detect certain classes related to powers of the $v_n$…

We study the spectral sequence that one obtains by applying mod 2 homology to the Goodwillie tower which sends a spectrum X to the suspension spectrum of its 0th space X_0. This converges strongly to H_*(X_0) when X is 0-connected. The E^1…

We show that Thurston's skinning maps of Teichmuller space have finite fibers. The proof centers around a study of two subvarieties of the SL_2(C) character variety of a surface, one associated to complex projective structures and the other…

For a surjective and proper map f: X -> Y there is a spectral sequence, called descent spectral sequence, abutting to the cohomology of Y with coefficients in a sheaf F. We prove that if the fibers of the map f satisfy some connectivity…

We compute the $E_2$ page of the Adams spectral sequence converging to the connective KO-theory of the second mod 2 Eilenberg-MacLane space, $ko_*(K(Z/2,2))$. This required a careful analysis of the structure of $H^*(K(Z/2,2);Z_2)$ as a…

For a motivic spectrum $E\in \mathcal{SH}(k)$, let $\Gamma(E)$ denote the global sections spectrum, where $E$ is viewed as a sheaf of spectra on $\mathrm{Sm}_k$. Voevodsky's slice filtration determines a spectral sequence converging to the…