An elementary construction of Anick's fibration

Abstract. Cohen, Moore, and Neisendorfer’s work on the odd primary homotopy theory of spheres and Moore spaces, as well as the first author’s work on the secondary suspension, predicted the existence of a p-local fibration S2n-1 - ¿ T - ¿ ¿S2n+1 whose connecting map is degree pr. In a long and complex monograph, Anick constructed such a fibration for p = 5 and r = 1. Using new methods we give a much more conceptual construction which is also valid for p = 3 and r = 1. We go on to establish several properties of the space T. 1.