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Why are ordinary spheres not strictly invertible?

Introduction This question is about Picard spectra for the symmetric monoidal $\infty$-category of spectra. We say that a spectrum $X$ is invertible if there is another spectrum $Y$ such that $X\...
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Obstructions to Picard-graded groups of maps

Suppose $(C,\odot,\Bbb I)$ is an additive category with a compatible symmetric monoidal structure and $Pic(C)$ is the group of isomorphism classes of objects which have an inverse under $\odot$. For $\...