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On the Whitehead theorem for nilpotent motivic spaces

Aravind Asok, Tom Bachmann and Michael J. Hopkins

Vol. 10 (2025), No. 4, 673–706
Abstract

We improve some foundational connectivity results and the relative Hurewicz theorem in motivic homotopy theory, study functorial central series in motivic local group theory, establish the existence of functorial Moore–Postnikov factorizations for nilpotent morphisms of motivic spaces under a mild technical hypothesis and establish an analog of the Whitehead theorem for nilpotent motivic spaces. As an application, we deduce a surprising unstable motivic periodicity result.

Keywords
motivic, Whitehead, homotopy, nilpotent
Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 14F42, 20F19, 55S45
Milestones
Received: 2 April 2024
Revised: 25 June 2025
Accepted: 3 October 2025
Published: 28 November 2025
Authors
Aravind Asok
Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
United States
Tom Bachmann
Institut für Mathematik
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Mainz
Germany
Michael J. Hopkins
Department of Mathematics
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
United States