Bockstein spectral sequence

In mathematics, the Bockstein spectral sequence is a spectral sequence relating the homology with mod p coefficients and the homology reduced mod p. It is named after Meyer Bockstein.

Definition

Let C be a chain complex of torsion-free abelian groups and p a prime number. Then we have the exact sequence:

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Taking integral homology H, we get the exact couple of "doubly graded" abelian groups:

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where the grading goes: and the same for , , , .

This gives the first page of the spectral sequence: we take with the differential . The derived couple of the above exact couple then gives the second page and so forth. Explicitly, we have that fits into the exact couple:

 

where is and (the degrees of i, k are the same as before). Now, taking of , we get:

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This tells the kernel and cokernel of . Expanding the exact couple into a long exact sequence, we get: for any r,

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When , this is the same thing as the universal coefficient theorem for homology.

Assume the abelian group is finitely generated; in particular, only finitely many cyclic modules of the form can appear as a direct summand of . Letting we thus see is isomorphic to .

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