Open AI and the 3-primary Kervaire invariant problem

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Douglas Ravenel, University of Rochester

Online Talk

One of the many papers released by Open AI this month concerns the 3-primary analog of the Kervaire invariant problem, which it claims to have solved by means of a very delicate calculation spanning 90 pages.  I will review the stable homotopy theoretic history and background, and describe  their  approach to the relevant homotopy fixed point spectral sequence.