Relations in the 24-th homotopy groups of spheres

Abstract

The main purpose of this note is to give a proof of the fact that the Toda brackets \ $\langle\barν,σ,\barν\rangle$ and $\langleν,η, \barσ\rangle$ are not trivial. This is an affirmative answer of M.~Mahowald's Conjecture (J. Mukai, Determination of the $P$-image by Toda brackets, Geometry and Topology Monographs \textbf{13}(2008), 355--383). The second purpose is to determine the relations including $\barν_6ω_{14}$ in $π^6_{30}$ and $\barν_7ω_{15}$ in $π^7_{31}$. To this end, we provide relations between the Toda bracket and the $J$-homomorphism, and between the Toda bracket and the generalized $P$-homomorphism.