The sphere of semiadditive height 1

Abstract

We construct a lift of the $p$-complete sphere to the universal height $1$ higher semiadditive stable $\infty$-category tsade-$1$ of Carmeli--Schlank--Yanovski, providing a counterexample, at height $1$, to their conjecture that the natural functor from tsade-$n$ to $\mathrm{Sp}_{T(n)}$ is an equivalence. We then record some consequences of the construction, including an observation of T. Schlank that this gives a conceptual proof of a classical theorem of Lee on the stable cohomotopy of Eilenberg--MacLane spaces.