A brief note on the Hopf and Kervaire invariant one problems

J. P. May

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A brief note on the Hopf and Kervaire invariant one problems

J. P. May

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This expository note advertises a little known but very old one-line solution of the Hopf invariant one problem and speculates on the (in)applicability of the idea to the Kervaire invariant one problem.

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J. P. May. 2026-07-15. A brief note on the Hopf and Kervaire invariant one problems. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18942

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