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The exact couple of a two step filtration
Example
Let be concentrated in degree zero with , zero differential, and filtration for , , for . Its initial exact couple has nonzero terms only on total degree zero: Both displayed terms are isomorphic to . The maps are the filtration inclusions, is identity at and quotient at , and . This finite filtered example is not first quadrant: is a nonzero spectral position.
Facts & Assumptions
A filtered complex produces an exact couple defines , and their maps.
Abelian-group model for spectral-sequence computations supplies the integer residue groups and their ordinary subgroup quotients.
Exact couple specifies degree , initial degree zero, degree and all three exactness equalities.
Verification
Given: The complex and finite filtration in the example. The subgroup is closed under addition and negatives, and all differentials are zero.
Homology of each piece equals its degree-zero group and vanishes in all other degrees. The successive quotient at is , isomorphic to by . At it has cosets , identified with by parity. All other graded quotients are zero. This proves every displayed and term, including the infinite constant tail.
The arrow from to is the inclusion of ; at every it is identity into the next . At it is the map from zero. The arrows are the stated identity and parity quotient at , and zero to zero targets elsewhere. Every lowers total degree to minus one, where the terms vanish, so . These maps have the exact degrees in [F3].
Check exactness at before : at , the incoming image and are zero; at , both are ; at , both are all of ; at both are zero. At every term is onto, so . At before , each is injective, so . All off-diagonal terms give zero equalities. Thus all vertices are explicitly exact. The differentials are zero, and the nonzero term prevents a first-quadrant interpretation. No AC or representative section is used.
Depends on
Used by
- Deriving an exact couple once Example
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Sources
- Weibel, An Introduction to Homological Algebra, Chapter 5 (standard reference, not scraped)
- The Stacks Project, Homological Algebra (standard reference, not scraped)