The slice spectral sequence for a motivic analogue of the connective $K(1)$-local sphere

Abstract: We compute the slice spectral sequence for the motivic stable homotopy groups of $L$, a motivic analogue of the connective $K(1)$-local sphere over prime fields of characteristic not two. Together with the analogous computation over algebraically closed fields, this yields information about the motivic $K(1)$-local sphere over arbitrary base fields of characteristic not two. To compute the slice spectral sequence, we prove several results which may be of independent interest. We describe the $d_1$-differentials in the slice spectral sequence in terms of the motivic Steenrod operations over general base fields, building on analogous results of Ananyevskiy, R{\"o}ndigs, and {\O}stv{\ae}r for the very effective cover of Hermitian K-theory. We also explicitly describe the coefficients of certain motivic Eilenberg--MacLane spectra and compute the slice spectral sequence for the very effective cover of Hermitian K-theory over prime fields.