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The smallest subgroup whose invariants are hit by the Steenrod algebra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2007

NGUYỄN H. V. HƯNG  and
TRAN DINH LUONG
NGUYỄN H. V. HƯNG
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 334 Nguyễn Trãi Street, Hanoi, Vietnam. e-mail: nhvhung@vnu.edu.vn
TRAN DINH LUONG
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Quynhon University, 170 An Duong Vuong Street, Quynhon, Vietnam. e-mail: tdinhluong@yahoo.com
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Abstract

Let V be a k-dimensional -vector space and let W be an n-dimensional vector subspace of V. Denote by GL(n, ) • 1k-n the subgroup of GL(V) consisting of all isomorphisms ϕ:V → V with ϕ(W) = W and ϕ(v) ≡ v (mod W) for every v ∈ V. We show that GL(3, ) • 1k-3 is, in some sense, the smallest subgroup of GL(V)≅ GL(k, , whose invariants are hit by the Steenrod algebra acting on the polynomial algebra, . The result is some aspect of an algebraic version of the classical conjecture that the only spherical classes inQ0S0are the elements of Hopf invariant one and those of Kervaire invariant one.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 142 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 63 - 71
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2007

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