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            Daniel Dugger and Daniel C. Isaksen 
            Motivic Hopf elements and relations view    print 
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                | Published: | 
                November 21, 2013 | 
               
              
                | Keywords: | 
                Motivic stable homotopy group, Hopf map | 
               
              
                | Subject: | 
                14F42, 55Q45 | 
               
              
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			  Abstract
			  
			      
We use Cayley-Dickson algebras to produce Hopf elements η, ν,
and σ
in the motivic stable homotopy groups of spheres, and we prove the
relations ην=0 and νσ=0 by geometric arguments.  Along
the way we develop several basic facts about the motivic stable
homotopy ring.
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			  | Acknowledgements
		       The first author was supported by NSF grant DMS-0905888.  The second author was supported by NSF grant DMS-1202213. 
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			  | Author information
 Daniel Dugger: 
Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 
ddugger@math.uoregon.edu 
Daniel C. Isaksen: 
Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202 
isaksen@math.wayne.edu 
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