{ "id": "2101.04591", "version": "v1", "published": "2021-01-12T16:42:46.000Z", "updated": "2021-01-12T16:42:46.000Z", "title": "$p$-hyperbolicity of homotopy groups via $K$-theory", "authors": [ "Guy Boyde" ], "comment": "29 pages", "categories": [ "math.AT" ], "abstract": "We show that $S^n \\vee S^m$ is $\\mathbb{Z}/p^r$-hyperbolic for all primes $p$ and all $r \\in \\mathbb{N}$, provided $n,m \\geq 2$, and consequently that various spaces containing $S^n \\vee S^m$ as a $p$-local retract are $\\mathbb{Z}/p^r$-hyperbolic. We then give a $K$-theory criterion for a suspension $\\Sigma X$ to be $p$-hyperbolic, and use it to deduce that the suspension of a complex Grassmannian $\\Sigma Gr_{k,n}$ is $p$-hyperbolic for all odd primes $p$ when $n \\geq 3$ and $0