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XiaoLin Danny Shi

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arXiv2025

Periodicity and finite complexity in higher real $K$-theories

In this paper, we establish periodicity results for higher real $K$-theories at all heights and for all finite subgroups of the Morava stabilizer group at the prime 2. We further analyze the $RO(G)$-periodicity lattice of the height-$h$ Lubin--Tate theory, proving new $RO(G)$-graded periodicities and explicit finiteness results for the $RO(G)$-graded homotopy groups of $E_h$. Together, these results provide a foundation for both the structural and computational study of higher real $K$-theories.

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arXiv2024

Vanishing lines in chromatic homotopy theory

We show that at the prime 2, for any height $h$ and any finite subgroup $G \subset \mathbb{G}_h$ of the Morava stabilizer group, the $RO(G)$-graded homotopy fixed point spectral sequence for the Lubin--Tate spectrum $E_h$ has a strong horizontal vanishing line of filtration $N_{h, G}$, a specific number depending on $h$ and $G$. It is a consequence of the nilpotence theorem that such homotopy fixed point spectral sequences all admit strong horizontal vanishing lines at some finite filtration. Here, we establish specific bounds for them. Our bounds are sharp for all the known computations of $E_h^{hG}$. Our approach involves investigating the effect of the Hill--Hopkins--Ravenel norm functor on the slice differentials. As a result, we also show that the $RO(G)$-graded slice spectral sequence for $(N_{C_2}^{G}\bar{v}_h)^{-1}BP^{(\!(G)\!)}$ shares the same horizontal vanishing line at filtration $N_{h, G}$. As an application, we utilize this vanishing line to establish a bound on the orientation order $Θ(h, G)$, the smallest number such that the $Θ(h, G)$-fold direct sum of any real vector bundle is $E_h^{hG}$-orientable.

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arXiv2024

A stratification of the equivariant slice filtration

In this paper, we construct a stratification tower for the equivariant slice filtration. This tower stratifies the slice spectral sequence of a $G$-spectrum $X$ into distinct regions. Within each of these regions, the differentials are determined by the localized slice spectral sequences, which compute the geometric fixed points along with their associated residue group actions. Consequently, the stratification tower offers an inductive method of understanding the entirety of the equivariant slice spectral sequence of $X$ by examining each of its distinct stratification regions.

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arXiv2024

Transchromatic phenomena in the equivariant slice spectral sequence

In this paper, we prove a transchromatic phenomenon for Hill--Hopkins--Ravenel and Lubin--Tate theories. This establishes a direct relationship between the equivariant slice spectral sequences of height-$h$ and height-$(h/2)$ theories. As applications of this transchromatic phenomenon, we prove periodicity and vanishing line results for these theories.

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arXiv2024

On the slice spectral sequence for quotients of norms of Real bordism

In this paper, we investigate equivariant quotients of the Real bordism spectrum's multiplicative norm $MU^{((C_{2^n}))}$ by permutation summands. These quotients are of interest because of their close relationship with higher real $K$-theories. We introduce new techniques for computing the equivariant homotopy groups of such quotients. As a new example, we examine the theories $BP^{((C_{2^n}))}\langle m,m\rangle$. These spectra serve as natural equivariant generalizations of connective integral Morava $K$-theories. We provide a complete computation of the $a_σ$-localized slice spectral sequence of $i^*_{C_{2^{n-1}}}BP^{((C_{2^n}))}\langle m,m\rangle$, where $σ$ is the real sign representation of $C_{2^{n-1}}$. To achieve this computation, we establish a correspondence between this localized slice spectral sequence and the $H\mathbb{F}_2$-based Adams spectral sequence in the category of $H\mathbb{F}_2 \wedge H\mathbb{F}_2$-modules. Furthermore, we provide a full computation of the $a_λ$-localized slice spectral sequence of the height-4 theory $BP^{((C_{4}))}\langle 2,2\rangle$. The $C_4$-slice spectral sequence can be entirely recovered from this computation.

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arXiv2023

The localized slice spectral sequence, norms of Real bordism, and the Segal conjecture

In this paper, we introduce the localized slice spectral sequence, a variant of the equivariant slice spectral sequence that computes geometric fixed points equipped with residue group actions. We prove convergence and recovery theorems for the localized slice spectral sequence and use it to analyze the norms of the Real bordism spectrum. As a consequence, we relate the Real bordism spectrum and its norms to a form of the $C_2$-Segal conjecture. We compute the localized slice spectral sequence of the $C_4$-norm of $BP_\mathbb{R}$ in a range and show that the Hill--Hopkins--Ravenel slice differentials is in one-to-one correspondence with a family of Tate differentials for $N_1^2 H{\mathbb{F}}_2$.

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arXiv2021

Models of Lubin-Tate spectra via Real bordism theory

We study certain formal group laws equipped with an action of the cyclic group of order a power of $2$. We construct $C_{2^n}$-equivariant Real oriented models of Lubin-Tate spectra $E_h$ at heights $h=2^{n-1}m$ and give explicit formulas of the $C_{2^n}$-action on their coefficient rings. Our construction utilizes equivariant formal group laws associated with the norms of the Real bordism theory $MU_{\mathbb{R}}$, and our work examines the height of the formal group laws of the Hill-Hopkins-Ravenel norms of $MU_{\mathbb{R}}$.

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arXiv2021

Transchromatic extensions in motivic and Real bordism

We show a number of Toda brackets in the homotopy of the motivic bordism spectrum $MGL$ and of the Real bordism spectrum $MU_{\mathbb R}$. These brackets are "red-shifting" in the sense that while the terms in the bracket will be of some chromatic height $n$, the bracket itself will be of chromatic height $(n+1)$. Using these, we deduce a family of exotic multiplications in the $π_{(\ast,\ast)}MGL$-module structure of the motivic Morava $K$-theories, including non-trivial multiplications by $2$. These in turn imply the analogous family of exotic multiplications in the $π_{\star}MU_\mathbb R$-module structure on the Real Morava $K$-theories.

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arXiv2021

The slice spectral sequence of a $C_4$-equivariant height-4 Lubin-Tate theory

We completely compute the slice spectral sequence of the $C_4$-spectrum $BP^{((C_4))}\langle 2 \rangle$. After periodization and $K(4)$-localization, this spectrum is equivalent to a height-4 Lubin-Tate theory $E_4$ with $C_4$-action induced from the Goerss-Hopkins-Miller theorem. In particular, our computation shows that $E_4^{hC_{12}}$ is 384-periodic.

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arXiv2021

Quotient rings of $H\mathbb{F}_2 \wedge H\mathbb{F}_2$

We study modules over the commutative ring spectrum $H\mathbb F_2\wedge H\mathbb F_2$, whose coefficient groups are quotients of the dual Steenrod algebra by collections of the Milnor generators. We show that very few of these quotients admit algebra structures, but those that do can be constructed simply: killing a generator $ξ_k$ in the category of associative algebras freely kills the higher generators $ξ_{k+n}$. Using new information about the conjugation operation in the dual Steenrod algebra, we also consider quotients by families of Milnor generators and their conjugates. This allows us to produce a family of associative $H\mathbb F_2\wedge H\mathbb F_2$-algebras whose coefficient rings are finite-dimensional and exhibit unexpected duality features. We then use these algebras to give detailed computations of the homotopy groups of several modules over this ring spectrum.

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arXiv2020

Picard groups and duality for Real Morava $E$-theories

We show, at the prime 2, that the Picard group of invertible modules over $E_n^{hC_2}$ is cyclic. Here, $E_n$ is the height $n$ Lubin--Tate spectrum and its $C_2$-action is induced from the formal inverse of its associated formal group law. We further show that $E_n^{hC_2}$ is Gross--Hopkins self-dual and determine the exact shift. Our results generalize the well-known results when $n = 1$.

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arXiv2020

Real Orientations of Lubin-Tate Spectra

We show that Lubin-Tate spectra at the prime $2$ are Real oriented and Real Landweber exact. The proof is by application of the Goerss-Hopkins-Miller theorem to algebras with involution. For each height $n$, we compute the entire homotopy fixed point spectral sequence for $E_n$ with its $C_2$-action given by the formal inverse. We study, as the height varies, the Hurewicz images of the stable homotopy groups of spheres in the homotopy of these $C_2$-fixed points.

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arXiv2019

Intersection Forms of Spin 4-Manifolds and the Pin(2)-Equivariant Mahowald Invariant

In studying the "11/8-Conjecture" on the Geography Problem in 4-dimensional topology, Furuta proposed a question on the existence of Pin(2)-equivariant stable maps between certain representation spheres. In this paper, we present a complete solution to this problem by analyzing the Pin(2)-equivariant Mahowald invariants. As a geometric application of our result, we prove a "10/8+4"-Theorem. We prove our theorem by analyzing maps between certain finite spectra arising from BPin(2) and various Thom spectra associated with it. To analyze these maps, we use the technique of cell diagrams, known results on the stable homotopy groups of spheres, and the $j$-based Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence.

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arXiv2018

Hurewicz Images of Real Bordism Theory and Real Johnson-Wilson Theories

We show that the Hopf elements, the Kervaire classes, and the $\barκ$-family in the stable homotopy groups of spheres are detected by the Hurewicz map from the sphere spectrum to the $C_2$-fixed points of the Real Brown-Peterson spectrum. A subset of these families is detected by the $C_2$-fixed points of Real Johnson-Wilson theory $E\mathbb{R}(n)$, depending on $n$.

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