Generalized Cohomology and the Atiyah Hirzebruch Spectral Sequence
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1 · Prerequisites
Abstract Algebra
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2 · Logical flowchart
3 · Items
Definition
Reduced generalized cohomology theory
Definition
Reduced generalized homology theory
Definition
Coefficient groups of a generalized cohomology theory
Definition
Coefficient groups of a generalized homology theory
Proposition
Reduced and unreduced generalized cohomology theories correspond
Proposition
Degree-d sphere maps act by multiplication by d in any generalized theory
Definition
Skeletal filtration for generalized cohomology
Lemma
The AHSS E-one page is cellular cochains with theory coefficients
Lemma
The AHSS first differential is the cellular coboundary
Theorem
Cohomological Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence
Lemma
Homological AHSS exact couple from the skeletal filtration
Theorem
Homological Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence
Lemma
Edge maps of a bounded skeletal AHSS
Theorem
Naturality and edge maps of the AHSS
Lemma
Pairings of skeletal exact couples induce multiplicative AHSS
Theorem
Multiplicative AHSS for a multiplicative generalized theory
Proposition
AHSS collapse generally determines only the associated graded object
Corollary
Complex K-theory AHSS
Lemma
The first connective complex K-theory Postnikov invariant is integral Sq-three
Lemma
KU representability and the skeletal–Postnikov d-three comparison
Theorem
The first possible complex K-theory AHSS differential is integral Sq-three
Lemma
Reduction of the integral Bockstein is the first Steenrod square
Sources
- Yiannis Loizides, The Atiyah–Hirzebruch Spectral Sequence, §2, printed pp. 3–4
- James Davis and Paul Kirk, Lecture Notes in Algebraic Topology, §8.8, printed pp. 227–233
- James Davis and Paul Kirk, Lecture Notes in Algebraic Topology, Definition 8.27, printed pp. 227–229
- Yiannis Loizides, The Atiyah–Hirzebruch Spectral Sequence, §2, printed p. 3
- James Davis and Paul Kirk, Lecture Notes in Algebraic Topology, Definition 8.28, printed pp. 229–230
- Yiannis Loizides, The Atiyah–Hirzebruch Spectral Sequence, Lemma 2.3 and Remark 2.2, printed pp. 4–5
- Yiannis Loizides, The Atiyah–Hirzebruch Spectral Sequence, §3, printed pp. 4–7
- Yiannis Loizides, The Atiyah–Hirzebruch Spectral Sequence, §3, printed pp. 4–6
- Yiannis Loizides, The Atiyah–Hirzebruch Spectral Sequence, Theorem 3.2 and its diagram, printed pp. 5–6
- Yiannis Loizides, The Atiyah–Hirzebruch Spectral Sequence, §3, Theorems 3.2 and 3.4, printed pp. 4–8
- Caleb Ji, The Atiyah–Hirzebruch Spectral Sequence, §§3.1–3.2, printed pp. 10–12
- Davis–Kirk, Lecture Notes in Algebraic Topology, §8.8 and Theorem 9.6, printed pp. 227–246
- Davis–Kirk, Lecture Notes in Algebraic Topology, Theorem 9.6, printed pp. 242–243
- Haynes Miller, MIT 18.906 Algebraic Topology II, Lecture 26, printed pp. 89–92
- Davis–Kirk, Lecture Notes in Algebraic Topology, §9.1, printed pp. 237–246
- Daniel Dugger, Multiplicative structures on homotopy spectral sequences II, §3.1, §3.3 and Theorem 3.4, printed pp. 4–5
- Haynes Miller, MIT 18.906 Algebraic Topology II, Lecture 29, printed pp. 100–101
- Caleb Ji, The Atiyah–Hirzebruch Spectral Sequence, §1.3, printed p. 4
- Daniel Dugger, Multiplicative structures on homotopy spectral sequences II, §3.1 and Theorem 3.4, printed pp. 4–5
- Romyar Sharifi, Homological Algebra, §4.1, printed pp. 87–90
- Caleb Ji, The Atiyah–Hirzebruch Spectral Sequence, §3.1, printed pp. 10–11
- J. F. Adams, Stable Homotopy and Generalised Homology, Proposition 16.6 and its proof, printed pp. 391–393
- J. F. Adams, Stable Homotopy and Generalised Homology, Chapter 2, printed pp. 174–179; Chapter 6(v), printed pp. 245–246; Chapter 7, printed pp. 257–260; Proposition 16.6, printed pp. 391–393
- J. P. May, A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology, Chapter 22 §2, printed pp. 175–179; Chapter 24 §§1–2, printed pp. 204–208
- Caleb Ji, The Atiyah–Hirzebruch Spectral Sequence, Proposition 3.12, printed p. 12
- J. F. Adams, Stable Homotopy and Generalised Homology, Proposition 16.6, printed pp. 391–393
- Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, §3.E, printed pp. 303–305