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The Redshift Bound from Quillen-Lichtenbaum

arXiv:2608.02180

Abstract

We give a new proof that algebraic K-theory increases chromatic height by at most one, originally established by Clausen-Mathew-Naumann-Noel. Our argument proceeds by descent from the Lubin-Tate spectrum, for which the required vanishing follows from Hahn-Wilson's Quillen-Lichtenbaum result.

v2: correct oversight in Proposition 8, 7 pages. v1: 7 pages. Comments are welcome!

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