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The exact couple of a two step filtration

Example

Let C be concentrated in degree zero with C0=Z/4, zero differential, and filtration FpC=0 for p<0, F0C=2Z/4, FpC=C for p1. Its initial exact couple has nonzero terms only on total degree zero: Dp,p1={0p<0,2Z/4p=0,Z/4p1,Ep,p1={2Z/4p=0,(Z/4)/(2Z/4)p=1,0otherwise. Both displayed E1 terms are isomorphic to Z/2. The i maps are the filtration inclusions, j is identity at p=0 and quotient at p=1, and k=0. This finite filtered example is not first quadrant: (1,1) is a nonzero spectral position.

Facts & Assumptions

[F1]

A filtered complex produces an exact couple defines D1=H(FpC), E1=H(FpC/Fp1C) and their maps.

[F2]

Abelian-group model for spectral-sequence computations supplies the integer residue groups and their ordinary subgroup quotients.

[F3]

Exact couple specifies i degree (1,1), initial j degree zero, k degree (1,0) and all three exactness equalities.

Verification

Given: The complex and finite filtration in the example. The subgroup 2Z/4={0,2} is closed under addition and negatives, and all differentials are zero.

1.1

Homology of each piece equals its degree-zero group and vanishes in all other degrees. The successive quotient at p=0 is {0,2}, isomorphic to Z/2 by [a]2[2a]4. At p=1 it has cosets {0,2},{1,3}, identified with Z/2 by parity. All other graded quotients are zero. This proves every displayed D1 and E1 term, including the infinite constant D1 tail.

F1F2
2.1

The i arrow from D0,01 to D1,11 is the inclusion of {0,2}; at every p1 it is identity into the next Z/4. At p<0 it is the map from zero. The j arrows are the stated identity and parity quotient at p=0,1, and zero to zero targets elsewhere. Every k lowers total degree to minus one, where the D1 terms vanish, so k=0. These maps have the exact degrees in [F3].

F1F3step 1.1
3.1

Check exactness at D1 before j: at p=0, the incoming i image and kerj are zero; at p=1, both are {0,2}; at p2, both are all of Z/4; at p<0 both are zero. At every E1 term j is onto, so imj=kerk=E1. At D1 before i, each i is injective, so keri=0=imk. All off-diagonal terms give zero equalities. Thus all vertices are explicitly exact. The d1=jk differentials are zero, and the nonzero (1,1) term prevents a first-quadrant interpretation. No AC or representative section is used.

F2F3step 1.1step 2.1

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