The Serre Spectral Sequence and Applications — Examples
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1 · Prerequisites
Abstract Algebra
- Binary Operations, Monoids, Groups and Subgroups
- Composition Series, the Jordan–Hölder Theorem and Solvable Groups
- Cosets, Index and Lagrange's Theorem
- Divisibility, Euclidean Domains, Principal Ideal Domains and Unique Factorisation
- Free Groups and Presentations
- Free Modules, Exact Sequences, Projective and Injective Modules
- Free Products and Amalgamation
- Group Actions, Orbits, Stabilisers and Cayley's Theorem
- Group Homomorphisms and the Isomorphism Theorems
- Ideals, Quotient Rings and the Isomorphism Theorems for Rings
- Modules, Submodules, Quotient Modules and the Isomorphism Theorems
- Normal Subgroups and Quotient Groups
- Polynomial Rings, the Division Algorithm and Roots
- Rings, Subrings, Integral Domains and Fields
- Simple Field Extensions and the Construction of the Complex Numbers
- Tensor Products of Modules
- The Group Algebra and Representations of Finite Groups
Algebraic Topology
- Cup Cap Cross Products and Cohomology Rings
- Cw Complexes and Cellular Homology
- Fibrations Fiber Bundles and Homotopy Exact Sequences
- Higher Homotopy Groups and Cofiber Sequences
- Homology Axioms Degree and Classical Applications
- Hurewicz Whitehead Freudenthal and Cw Approximation
- Local Coefficients, Twisted Homology, and Duality
- Obstruction Theory, Postnikov Towers, and Classifying Spaces
- Relative Homology Excision and Mayer Vietoris
- Simplicial Complexes and Simplicial Homology
- Simplicial Subdivision and Simplicial Approximation
- Singular Chains and Singular Homology
- Singular Cohomology and Coefficient Theorems
- The Serre Spectral Sequence and Applications
Category Theory
- Abelian Categories
- Categories, Functors and Natural Transformations
- Exactness and the Member Calculus
- Limits and Colimits
- Preadditive and Additive Categories and Biproducts
- Reflective Subcategories and the Adjoint Functor Theorems
- Subobject Lattices Generators and the Grothendieck Axioms
- The Diagram Lemmas in an Abelian Category
- Universal Properties, Representables and the Yoneda Lemma
Homological Algebra
- Chain Complexes and Homology
- Chain Homotopy and the Homotopy Category
- Derived Functors
- Double Complexes Exact Couples and Convergence
- Ext and Balanced Resolutions
- Kunneth Exactness and Splittings over Principal Ideal Domains
- Long Exact Sequences in Homology
- Projective and Injective Resolutions
- Spectral Sequences
- Universal Coefficients and Kunneth Theorems
Linear Algebra
Real Analysis
- Construction of the Real Numbers via Cauchy Sequences
- Construction of the Real Numbers via Dedekind Cuts
- Continuity, IVT, EVT, and Uniform Continuity
- Countability and Uncountability
- Foundations of the Real Numbers for Analysis
- Limits of Real Functions
- Monotone Sequences, Bolzano-Weierstrass, and Cauchy Completeness
- Rⁿ as a Normed Space; Vector-Valued Functions
- Roots, Rational Powers, and Classical Inequalities
- Sequences and Limits
- Suprema and Infima
- The Cantor Set, Baire Category, and Measure Zero in ℝ
- Topology of ℝ
Set Theory
- Cardinal Arithmetic, Cofinality and the Alephs
- Construction of the Natural Numbers
- Filters and Ultrafilters
- Order, Zorn's Lemma, and the Axiom of Choice
- Ordinal Arithmetic and the First Uncountable Ordinal
- Ordinals, Cardinals, and Transfinite Recursion
- Relations, Functions, and Quotients
- The ZFC Axioms and the Basic Set Constructions
Topology
- Classification of Covering Spaces
- Compactness
- Compactness in Metric Spaces
- Completeness, Completion, and Uniform Continuity
- Connectedness
- Covering Spaces and Lifting
- Function Space Topologies and the Exponential Law
- Hausdorff via the Diagonal
- Homotopy and Homotopy Equivalence
- Metric Spaces
- Partitions of Unity and Paracompactness
- Separation Axioms: the Hierarchy
- Subspaces, Products, and Quotients
- The Fundamental Group
- The Fundamental Group of the Circle
- The Seifert–van Kampen Theorem
- The Topology of Euclidean Space
- Topological Spaces and Continuity
- Uniform Spaces: the Three Definitions
- Urysohn's Lemma and the Tietze Extension Theorem
2 · Logical flowchart
3 · Items
Example
Path-loop Serre computation of CP infinity
Example
Serre spectral sequence of the complex Hopf fibration
Example
Serre spectral sequence of the quaternionic Hopf fibration
Example
Homology of the loop space of an odd sphere
Example
Wang sequence of a mapping torus
Counterexample
A stable Serre diagonal need not split its abutment
Counterexample
Ignoring monodromy gives the wrong Serre E2 page
Sources
- Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Example 5.4
- Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, the Hopf bundle and Example 5.16
- Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Hopf bundles and the multiplicative Serre calculation
- Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Example 5.5
- Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Serre sequence over the circle
- Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, extension warning before Example 5.4
- Miller, MIT 18.906 notes, local coefficients in the Serre sequence