The nilpotence height of P-t(s) for odd primes

Articles > Article · 1999

Authors: İsmet KARACA

TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 1999, vol 351, pp 547-558

DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-99-01906-6

Summary

K. G. Monks has recently shown that the element Pb has nilpotence height 2[s/t] + 2 in the mod 2 Steenrod algebra. Here the method and result are generalized to show that for an odd prime p the element Pb has nilpotence height p[s/t] + p in the mod p Steenrod algebra.

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