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Collapse solves all extension problems

Statement

It is false that collapse solves all extension problems of a spectral sequence.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The degree-zero stalk complex on the filtered group in [F1].

[F1]

The increasing filtration 0{0,2}Z/4 has two Z/2 graded pieces, while its underlying group is not their direct sum: Isomorphic associated graded objects need not give isomorphic filtered objects.

[F2]

A stalk complex has a single nonzero chain object and zero differential: Zero complex and stalk complex.

[F3]

The page of a filtered complex is the stated filtered numerator/denominator quotient: R page of the spectral sequence of a filtered complex.

[F4]

The page differential is induced by the chain differential: The filtered differential induces d r on the r page.

[F5]

Collapse at a page means that every differential on that and all later pages is zero: Collapse at a page.

[F6]

A bounded filtered complex abuts to its image-filtered homology: Bounded filtered complex spectral sequence abuts to filtered homology.

[F7]

Solving the extension problem means reconstructing the filtered abutment, with splitting requiring sections of its quotient extensions: Extension problem of a convergent spectral sequence.

Refutation

technique · direct
1.1

Put the filtered group A=Z/4 of [F1] in chain degree zero, using [F2]. Since the chain differential is zero, [F3] gives Ep,pr=FpA/Fp1A and zero elsewhere for every r. Thus its only nonzero page objects are the two Z/2 pieces at p=0,1. By [F4] every page differential is induced by the zero map, so the sequence collapses from page zero by [F5]. Its filtration is finite, and [F6] identifies its filtered abutment with H0(C)=A=Z/4.

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2.1

The projection Z/4(Z/4)/{0,2}Z/2 has fiber {1,3} over 1. Each element of this fiber doubles to 20, so neither can be the image of 1 under an additive section from Z/2. Hence the quotient extension has no section in the sense of [F7]. The extension problem remains unsolved by the stable pieces even though the sequence has already collapsed.

F7step 1.1

Source notes

Weibel, Chapter 5, §5.2 pp.122–125 and Definitions 5.4.2–4 pp.132–133; Sharifi, §4.1 pp.87–89 and Definition 4.2.1 p.90.

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