Infinite families of higher torsion in the homotopy groups of Moore spaces

Abstract

We give a refinement of the stable Snaith splitting of the double loop space of a Moore space and use it to construct infinite $v_1$-periodic families of elements of order $p^{r+1}$ in the homotopy groups of mod $p^r$ Moore spaces. For odd primes $p$, our splitting implies that the homotopy groups of the mod $p^{r+1}$ Moore spectrum are summands of the unstable homotopy groups of each mod $p^r$ Moore space.