The Adams differentials on the $e$-family

TL;DR

This paper uses advanced spectral sequence techniques to prove the New Doomsday Conjecture for the $e$-family on the Adams 4-line, extending previous results on lower lines and employing novel methods.

Contribution

It establishes the non-triviality of a product on the Adams 6-line and proves the New Doomsday Conjecture for the $e$-family on the Adams 4-line, advancing understanding of the conjecture.

Findings

Proved non-triviality of a product on the Adams 6-line.

Established the New Doomsday Conjecture for the $e$-family on the Adams 4-line.

Extended previous results to higher Adams lines using spectral sequence techniques.

Abstract

The New Doomsday Conjecture (Minami, Amer. J. Math., 1995) states that, for any nonzero $\mathrm{Sq}^0$-family, only finitely many terms in this family survive to the $E_\infty$-page. On the Adams $1$ and $2$-line, the conjecture, which corresponds to the Hopf invariant problem and the Kervaire invariant problem, were solved by Adams (Ann. of Math., 1960) and Hill-Hopkins-Ravenel (arXiv:0908.3724), respectively. On the Adams $3$-line, Burklund and Xu (arXiv:2302.11869) established a family of nontrivial differentials on the $h_j^3$ family, and in particular developed the Burklund-Xu Spectral Sequence, to study the non-triviality of its target on the Adams $E_2$-page. In this paper, we use the Burklund-Xu Spectral Sequence to establish the non-triviality of a product on the Adams $6$-line. Combining this with Bruner's formula by Bruner et al. (LNM 1176, 1986), we prove the New Doomsday Conjecture for the $e$-family on the Adams $4$-line.