Endomorphisms of the projective plane and the image of the Suslin-Hurewicz map

Abstract

The endomorphism ring of the projective plane over a field F of characteristic neither two nor three is slightly more complicated in the Morel-Voevodsky motivic stable homotopy category than in Voevodsky's derived category of motives. In particular, it is not commutative precisely if there exists a square in F which does not admit a sixth root. A byproduct of the computations is a proof of Suslin's conjecture on the Suslin-Hurewicz homomorphism from Quillen to Milnor K-theory in degree four, based on work of Asok, Fasel, and Williams.