The Stable Adams Conjecture

Abstract

We provide proofs of several variants for spectra of the original Adams Conjecture. Our approach uses F-spaces (also known as Segal Gamma-spaces), resulting in establishing both unstable and stable homotopy equivalences between maps of spectra associated to the J-map and the Adams operations. We employ a rigid version of Artin-Mazur etale homotopy theory applied to commutative diagrams of simplicial schemes defined over the Witt vectors of fields of positive characteristic. Much of this text is devoting to developing a theory of X-fibrations and l-complete X-fibrations over the F-spaces we consider.