While all of the relations in the Steenrod algebra, A, can be deduced in principle from the Adem relations, in practice, it is extremely difficult to determine whether a given polynomial of elements in A is zero for all but the most elementary cases. In his original paper [Mi] Milnor states “It would be interesting to discover a complete set of relations between the given generators of A”. In p...

This talk covers most of section 4 in the Mathew-Naumann-Noel paper [MNN15]. We first discuss nilpotence in an arbitrary symmetric monoidal stable ∞-category. We then discuss the historical origins of nilpotence in the stable homotopy category, namely the Ravenel conjectures and the Nilpotence theorem proved by Devinatz-Hopkins-Smith.

The question about polynomial maps F : C → C, first raised by Keller [1] in 1939 for polynomials over the integers but now also raised for complex polynomials and, as such, known as The Jacobian Conjecture (JC), asks whether a polynomial map F with nonzero constant Jacobian determinant detF (x) need be a polyomorphism: Injective and also surjective with polynomial inverse. The known reductions ...

Let G be a connected reductive group defined over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic p > 0. The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, when p is a good prime, we give a new proof of the “order formula” of D. Testerman for unipotent elements in G; moreover, we show that the same formula determines the p-nilpotence degree of the corresponding nilpotent elements in the Lie algebr...