For a field $k$ there exists the motivic stable homotopy $SH(k)$; it is compactly generated. My question: does there exist a 'reasonable' functor $p$ from $SH(k)$ to a certain triangulated category $SH_2(k)$ that posesses a right adjoint $i$ such that any object of $ip(SH(k))$ is $2$-torsion or (at least) a countable homotopy colimit of $2$-torsion objects? As far as I remember, in a paper of Schwede it is proved that nothing like $SH(k)\otimes \mathbb{Z}/2^n\mathbb{Z}$ can exist; is it possible to 'project' $SH(k)$ onto something like the subcategory of ind-$2$-torsion objects? I don't know what I want exactly; yet this should be some 'universal' construction.
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$\begingroup$ Why would you want this? $\endgroup$– Will SawinDec 7, 2013 at 18:11
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$\begingroup$ Because I want certain '$2$-torsion motivic spectra' for smooth varieties. $\endgroup$– Mikhail BondarkoDec 7, 2013 at 18:14
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1$\begingroup$ Rather $2^N id_X=0$ for some $N$ (that could be fixed or vary with $X$; the case $N=1$ could also be interesting). $\endgroup$– Mikhail BondarkoDec 7, 2013 at 22:26
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1$\begingroup$ There are semi-trivial solutions, like smashing with a ring spectrum where $2^N$ vanishes, e.g.~an EML spectrum of a ring where $2^N=0$. Maybe you want to reformulate your question imposing more conditions, say on the unit $X\rightarrow ip(X)$. $\endgroup$– Fernando MuroDec 7, 2013 at 23:47
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1$\begingroup$ Actually, this is a nice remark; possibly I will use this idea. Yet I am rather interested in 'universal' constructions, whereas as far as I remember $S^0/2^NS^0$ is not a ring spectrum. $\endgroup$– Mikhail BondarkoDec 8, 2013 at 5:50
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Here is one answer. Start with the 2-local stable homotopy category. Map X to the fiber C_0 X of the map X --> L_0 X to the rationalization of X. Then C_0 X is the minimal weak colimit of all the finite torsion spectra mapping to X, so it is an ind-2-torsion object. It also remembers, by definition, all the information about X except the rational information. The category consisting of all the C_0 X is a full triangulated subcategory of the 2-local stable homotopy category closed under coproducts and the mod 2 Moore spectrum is a weak generator. It is closed under the smash product, but it is not symmetric monoidal because there is no unit. The image of the sphere looks just like the sphere except that the 0th stable homotopy group is 0 and in dimension -1 you see the Prufer group Q/Z_(2).