Higher associativity of Moore spectra and (p)-local Adams conjecture.

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Prasit Bhattacharya, University of Virginia

Not much is known about homotopy coherent ring structures of the Moore spectrum Mp(i) (the cofiber of pi self-map on the sphere spectrumS0), especially when i>1. Stasheff developed a hierarchy of coherence for homotopy associative multiplications called An structures. The only known results are that Mp(1) is Ap1 and not Ap and that M2(i) are at least A3 for i>1. In this talk, techniques will be developed to get estimates of  `higher associativity' structures on  Mp(i). In particular, it will be shown that, Mp(i) admits Api1-structure for odd primes and A2i11-structure when p=2. This result requires solving stable p-local Adams Conjecture. Work presented here is joint with N.Kitchloo.