Author: Vladimir Voevodsky
Title: On the zero slice of the sphere spectrum
Email: vladimir@ias.edu

In this paper we prove over fields of characteristic zero that the
zero slice of the motivic sphere spectrum is the motivic
Eilenberg-Maclane spectrum. As a corollary one concludes that the
slices of any spectrum are modules over the motivic Eilenberg-MacLane
spectrum. To prove our result we analyze the unstable homotopy type of
the symmetric powers of the T-sphere.