Higher Toda brackets and the Adams spectral sequence in triangulated categories

The Adams spectral sequence is available in any triangulated category equipped with a projective or injective class. Higher Toda brackets can also be defined in a triangulated category, as observed by B Shipley based on J Cohen’s approach for spectra. We provide a family of definitions of higher Toda brackets, show that they are equivalent to Shipley’s and show that they are self-dual. Our main result is that the Adams differential $d_{r}$ in any Adams spectral sequence can be expressed as an $(r + 1)$ –fold Toda bracket and as an $r^{t h}$ order cohomology operation. We also show how the result simplifies under a sparseness assumption, discuss several examples and give an elementary proof of a result of Heller, which implies that the $3$ –fold Toda brackets in principle determine the higher Toda brackets.

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triangulated category, Adams spectral sequence, Toda bracket, cohomology operation, differential, higher order operation, projective class

Mathematical Subject Classification 2010

Primary: 55T15

Secondary: 18E30

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Received: 31 October 2015

Revised: 29 June 2016

Accepted: 22 February 2017

Published: 19 September 2017

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J Daniel Christensen
Department of Mathematics University of Western Ontario London, ON Canada

Martin Frankland
Institut für Mathematik Universität Osnabrück Osnabrück Germany

Volume 17, issue 5 (2017)

J Daniel Christensen and Martin Frankland

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