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On the nilpotence order of β1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Chun-Nip Lee  and
Douglas C. Ravenel
Chun-Nip Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
Douglas C. Ravenel
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester, River Station Road, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
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For p > 2, is the first positive even-dimensional element in the stable homotopy groups of spheres. A classical theorem of Nishida[1] states that all elements of positive dimension in the stable homotopy groups of spheres are nilpotent. In fact, Toda [4] proved . For p = 3 he showed that while . In [2] the second author computed the first thousand stems of the stable homotopy groups of spheres at the prime 5. One of the consequences of this computation is that while .

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 115 , Issue 3 , May 1994 , pp. 483 - 488
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1994

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