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Guy Boyde

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arXiv2026

Realification of stably trivial vector bundles

The set of stably trivial complex vector bundles over complex projective spaces and spheres has a natural group structure when the corank is small enough. With respect to this group structure, the operations of taking the underlying real vector bundle (realification) and of adding a trivial line bundle (stabilisation), are group homomorphisms. Building on Hu's recent enumerations of stably trivial complex bundles, we compute these homomorphisms in a range by using Weiss calculus to translate the problem to stable homotopy theory.

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arXiv2025

The dga of planar loops when $2n=4$

The dga of planar loops is a pictorial chain complex introduced in a recent paper of the author, Boyd, Randal-Williams, and Sroka, where a minimal model for it was given. In the first nontrivial case, $2n=4$, we give a new model which incorporates two natural `reflection' involutions, as well as a more explicit description of the existing model.

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arXiv2025

Even Temperley-Lieb algebras and the dga of planar loops

We show that the homology of a Temperley-Lieb algebra on an even number of strands has a rich algebraic structure and is highly nontrivial in general. This is achieved by proving that it is entirely governed by a differential graded algebra: the differential graded algebra of planar loops. We provide a small model for this dga, and use it to obtain consequences on homology.

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arXiv2024

The Goodwillie calculus of polyhedral products

We describe the Goodwillie calculus of polyhedral products in the case that the fat wedge filtration on the associated real moment-angle complex is trivial. We do this by analysing the behaviour on calculus of the Denham-Suciu fibre sequence, the Iriye-Kishimoto decomposition of the polyhedral product constructed from a collection of pairs of cones and their bases, and the Hilton-Milnor decomposition. As a corollary we show that the Goodwillie calculus of these polyhedral products converges integrally and diverges in $v_h$-periodic homotopy unless the simplicial complex is a full simplex.

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arXiv2023

Homological stability and Graham-Lehrer cellular algebras

We show how to formulate some recent results from homological stability of algebras in Graham and Lehrer's language of cellular algebras. The aim is to begin to connect the new results from topology to well-established representation theoretic understandings of these objects.

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arXiv2023

Stable homology isomorphisms for the partition and Jones annular algebras

We show that the homology of the Jones annular algebras is isomorphic to that of the cyclic groups below a line of gradient $\frac{1}{2}$. We also show that the homology of the partition algebras is isomorphic to that of the symmetric groups below a line of gradient 1, strengthening a result of Boyd-Hepworth-Patzt. Both isomorphisms hold in a range exceeding the stability range of the algebras in question. Along the way, we prove the usual odd-strand and invertible parameter results for the Jones annular algebras.

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arXiv2023

Some asymptotic formulae for torsion in homotopy groups

Inspired by a remarkable work of F\'{e}lix, Halperin and Thomas on the asymptotic estimation of the ranks of rational homotopy groups, and more recent works of Wu and the authors on local hyperbolicity, we prove two asymptotic formulae for torsion rank of homotopy groups, one using ordinary homology and one using $K$-theory. We use these to obtain explicit quantitative asymptotic lower bounds on the torsion rank of the homotopy groups for many interesting spaces after suspension, including Moore spaces, Eilenberg-MacLane spaces, complex projective spaces, complex Grassmannians, Milnor hypersurfaces and unitary groups.

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arXiv2022

Idempotents and homology of diagram algebras

This paper provides a systematization of some recent results in homology of algebras. Our main theorem gives criteria under which the homology of a diagram algebra is isomorphic to the homology of the subalgebra on diagrams having the maximum number of left-to-right connections. From this theorem, we deduce the `invertible-parameter' cases of the Temperley-Lieb and Brauer results of Boyd-Hepworth and Boyd-Hepworth-Patzt. We are also able to give a new proof of Sroka's theorem that the homology of an odd-strand Temperley-Lieb algebra vanishes, as well as an analogous result for Brauer algebras and an interpretation of both results in the even-strand case. Our proofs are relatively elementary: in particular, no auxiliary chain complexes or spectral sequences are required. We briefly discuss the relationship to cellular algebras in the sense of Graham-Lehrer.

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arXiv2022

Growth of homotopy groups of spheres via the Goodwillie-EHP Sequence

We bound the volume of the homotopy groups of the 2-local Goodwillie approximations of a sphere in terms of the amount of $2$-torsion in the stable stems, providing a Goodwillie-theoretic refinement of a result of Burklund and Senger (arXiv:2203.00670). At the $2^k$-excisive approximation, this bound is obtained by `multiplying the stable answer by a polynomial of degree $k$'. The main tool is Behrens' Goodwillie-EHP Long Exact Sequence.

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arXiv2021

$\mathbb{Z}/p^r$-hyperbolicity via homology

We show that the homotopy groups of a Moore space $P^n(p^r)$, where $p^r \neq 2$, are $\mathbb{Z}/p^s$-hyperbolic for $s \leq r$. Combined with work of Huang-Wu, Neisendorfer, and Theriault, this completely resolves the question of when such a Moore space is $\mathbb{Z}/p^s$-hyperbolic for $p \geq 5$, or when $p=2$ and $r \geq 6$. We also give a criterion in ordinary homology for a space to be $\mathbb{Z}/p^r$-hyperbolic, and deduce some examples.

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arXiv2021

$p$-hyperbolicity of homotopy groups via $K$-theory

We show that $S^n \vee S^m$ is $\mathbb{Z}/p^r$-hyperbolic for all primes $p$ and all $r \in \mathbb{Z}^+$, provided $n,m \geq 2$, and consequently that various spaces containing $S^n \vee S^m$ as a $p$-local retract are $\mathbb{Z}/p^r$-hyperbolic. We then give a $K$-theory criterion for a suspension $\Sigma X$ to be $p$-hyperbolic, and use it to deduce that the suspension of a complex Grassmannian $\Sigma Gr_{k,n}$ is $p$-hyperbolic for all odd primes $p$ when $n \geq 3$ and $0<k<n$. We obtain similar results for some related spaces.

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arXiv2020

Bounding size of homotopy groups of spheres

Let $p$ be prime. We prove that, for $n$ odd, the $p$-torsion part of $\pi_q(S^{n})$ has cardinality at most $p^{2^{\frac{1}{p-1}(q-n+3-2p)}}$, and hence has rank at most $2^{\frac{1}{p-1}(q-n+3-2p)}$. For $p=2$ these results also hold for $n$ even. The best bounds proven in the existing literature are $p^{2^{q-n+1}}$ and $2^{q-n+1}$ respectively, both due to Hans-Werner Henn. The main point of our result is therefore that the bound grows more slowly for larger primes. As a corollary of work of Henn, we obtain a similar result for the homotopy groups of a broader class of spaces.

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