THE NILPOTENCY HEIGHT OF P-PN

Authors
WALKER G WOOD RMW
Citation
G. Walker et Rmw. Wood, THE NILPOTENCY HEIGHT OF P-PN, Mathematical proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 123, 1998, pp. 85-93
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics,Mathematics
Journal title
Mathematical proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society → ACNP
ISSN journal
03050041
Volume
123
Year of publication
1998
Part
1
Pages
85 - 93
Database
ISI
SICI code
0305-0041(1998)123:<85:>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
In [10] it was shown that the element Sq(2n) has nilpotence height 2n2 in the mod 2 Steenrod algebra. Here the method and result are genera lised to show that for an odd prime p the element P-p'' has nilpotence height p(n + 1) in the mod Steenrod algebra. Some of the other result s of [10] are also generalised to odd primes p.