Piotr Pstrągowski, Northwestern University
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LOW 116
In chromatic homotopy theory, one stratifies the stable homotopy category by fixing a prime and looking at the $E(n)$-local parts, which informally see "information up to height $n$". As the height grows, these categories become increasingly intricate and converge to the p-local homotopy theory in a precise sense.
On the other hand, it has been observed that when the prime is large relative to the height, then the $E(n)$-local category simplifies considerably - for example, the $E(n)$-local homotopy groups of spheres admit a purely algebraic description.
In this talk, we show that when $p > n^2+n+1$, the homotopy category of $E(n)$-local spectra is equivalent to the homotopy category of differential $E(n)_*E(n)$-comodules, giving a precise sense in which chromatic homotopy theory is algebraic at large primes. This extends the work of Bousfield at $n = 1$ to all heights, and affirms a conjecture of Franke.