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A brief note on the Hopf and Kervaire invariant one problems
Abstract
This expository note advertises a little known but very old one-line solution of the Hopf invariant one problem and speculates on the (in)applicability of the idea to the Kervaire invariant one problem.
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BibTeX
@misc{may2026brief,
title = {{A brief note on the Hopf and Kervaire invariant one problems}},
author = {J. P. May},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.18942},
eprint = {2609.18942},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18942},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - A brief note on the Hopf and Kervaire invariant one problems
AU - J. P. May
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.18942
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18942
AB - This expository note advertises a little known but very old one-line solution of the Hopf invariant one problem and speculates on the (in)applicability of the idea to the Kervaire invariant one problem.
ER -