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Manuscript 1 (family 318, 2026-09-27): The primary manuscript establishes nonzero sphere-kernel classes refuting the canonical weak chromatic splitting retraction at specified bad-prime heights. The bad-prime sphere kernels at n=p and n=p+1 give specific obstruction data for the overlap but not the requested systematic homotopy-type description of the entire bad-prime fiber.
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Chromatic Fiber Structure at Bad Primes
OpenAI's claim
The canonical weak-splitting unit is claimed to have no retraction at height p for p at least five and height p+1 for p at least seven, witnessed by $\beta_1^{(p-1)^2}$. The cited manuscript argues for that result; its relation to this problem is specified below.Mathematical statement of the claimed result
Mathematical claim 1.
Let $p\ge5$, $S=S_p^\wedge$, $L_j=L_{E(j)}$ and $L_{K(j)}$ be chromatic localizations. Put \[ d_p=2p(p-1)-2,\qquad k_p=(p-1)^2,\qquad z_p=\beta_1^{k_p}\in\pi_{d_pk_p}S, \] where $\beta_1$ is the first classical beta element. OpenAI claims that the image of $z_p$ in $\pi_{d_pk_p}L_{p-1}S$ is nonzero but is killed by the unit-induced map \[ i_{p,S}:L_{p-1}S\longrightarrow L_{p-1}L_{K(p)}S. \] Hence this map has no homotopy retraction. The finite input is the sphere and the height equals the prime; this does not assert such failure at every height.Outline of the argument
Manuscript 1 (family 318, 2026-09-27): The named beta power survives under the height-$p-1$ unit by an ordinary homotopy-fixed-point detection calculation. At each upper height, a separated multiplicative filtration puts beta_1 in degree at least two and vanishes beyond a dimension-controlled bound, killing that same power. Completion and naturality identify a nonzero lower-localized class in the unit's kernel, obstructing a retraction.Formal verification
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- OpenAI, Counterexamples to weak chromatic splitting: sphere kernels and descent exponents, 2026-09-27; citation key
OAI:Counterexamples-to-weak-chromatic-splitting-sphere-kernels-and-descent-exponents-September-27-2026. PDF (GitHub); PDF (direct); Manuscript page and citation; Latest version; Statement source: thm:height-p-kernel. - OpenAI catalogue entry.