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Counterexamples to weak chromatic splitting: sphere kernels and descent exponents

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For the derived p -completion of the sphere, the canonical weak chromatic splitting map has no homotopy retraction at height p for every prime p ≥ 5, and at height $p+1$ for every prime p ≥ 7. The classical sphere product $\beta_1^{(p-1)^2}$ gives a nonzero kernel class in both ranges.

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