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Title: The monochromatic Hahn-Wilson conjecture

Abstract: In 1999, Mark Mahowald and Charles Rezk (both at Northwestern at the time) introduced a class of spectra which are particularly amenable to understanding using the classical Adams spectral sequence, called fp-spectra. As first described by Rognes, these play a pivotal role in generalizing Quillen-Lichtenbaum conjectures to the setting of ring spectra.

The Quillen-Lichtenbaum conjectures were proven for truncated Brown-Peterson spectra by Dylan Wilson (Northwestern 17') and Jeremy Hahn (Wildcat at heart, but no formal affiliation) in 2021, who in this way discovered the first highly non-obvious example of an fp-spectrum in the form of algebraic K-theory. This led them to ask about a general structure result for fp-spectra, and to conjecture that they can all be built out of particularly simple ones. 

I will talk about recent joint work with David Lee where we prove a monochromatic analogue of the Hahn-Wilson conjecture, and deduce the original conjecture at height one.