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I'm trying to follow Hopkins' construction of the Serre Spectral Sequence, but some "obvious" things are not that obvious to me.

He starts with considering a double complex $C_{\bullet,\bullet}$ with $C_{p,q}$ to be a free $\mathbb{Z}$-module generated by the maps $\Delta[p]\times\Delta[q]\rightarrow E$ ($E$ is a total space of Serre fibration over $B$) which fit into the diagram

\begin{matrix} \Delta[p]\times\Delta[q] & \to & E \\ \downarrow & & \downarrow \\
\Delta[p] & \to & B \end{matrix}

with obvious differentials (coordinate by coordinate differentatials differentials as in normal singular complex).

There are two filtrations, he uses the first one (by rows) to determine the homology of the total complex, ane the second one to get $E^2_{p,q}=H_p(B,\underline{H_q}(F)$. I have a problem with the second part. He fixes $p$ and a map $c$ in the bottom row and interprets the diagram as a map $\Delta[q]\rightarrow F_c$ where $F_c$ is the image of $\Delta[p]\times\Delta[q]$ in $E$ such that the diagram commutes, which basically means that $C_{p,q}=\bigoplus_c \mathbb{Z}[F_c]$ (as a module, that's true). Now he calculates the homology of the column and says that it's $\bigoplus_c H_*(F_c)$. Why we can we apply the vertical differential here? Do we need to check some compatibility condition?

Next, we want to use that $E^1_{p,q}$ is a module of singular $p$-chains with coefficients in a local system $\underline{H_q}(F)$ and say that the horizontal differential is just the regular differential to get the desired output. But how do we know that this differential works in a nice way?

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I'm trying to follow Hopkins' construction of the Serre Spectral Sequence, but some "obvious" things are not that obvious to me.

He starts with considering a double complex $C_{\bullet,\bullet}$ with $C_{p,q}$ to be a free $\mathbb{Z}$-module generated by the maps $\Delta[p]\times\Delta[q]\rightarrow E$ ($E$ is a total space of Serre fibration over $B$) which fit into the diagram

\begin{matrix} \Delta[p]\times\Delta[q] & \to & E \\ \downarrow & & \downarrow \\
\Delta[p] & \to & B \end{matrix}

with obvious differentials (coordinate by coordinate differentatials as in normal singular complex).

There are two filtrations, he uses the first one (by rows) to determine the homology of the total complex, ane the second one to get $E^2_{p,q}=H_p(B,\underline{H_q}(F)$. I have a problem with the second part. He fixes $p$ and an application a map $c$ in the bottom row and interprets the diagram as a map $\Delta[q]\rightarrow F_c$ where $F_c$ is the image of $\Delta[p]\times\Delta[q]$ in $E$ such that the diagram commutes, which basically means that $C_{p,q}=\bigoplus_c \mathbb{Z}[F_c]$ (as a module, that's true). Now he calculates the homology of the column and says that it's $\bigoplus_c H_*(F_c)$. Why we can apply the vertical differential here? Do we need to check some compatibility condition?

Next, we want to use that $E^1_{p,q}$ is a module of singular $p$-chains with coefficients in a local system $\underline{H_q}(F)$ and say that the horizontal differential is just the regular differential to get the desired output. But how do we know that this differential works in a nice way?

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I'm trying to follow Hopkins' construction of the Serre Spectral Sequence, but some "obvious" things are not that obvious to me.

He starts with considering a double complex $C_{\bullet,\bullet}$ with $C_{p,q}$ to be a free $\mathbb{Z}$-module generated by the maps $\Delta[p]\times\Delta[q]\rightarrow E$ ($E$ is a total space of Serre fibration over $B$) which fit into the diagram

\begin{matrix} \Delta[p]\times\Delta[q] & \to & E \\ \downarrow & & \downarrow \\
\Delta[p] & \to & B \end{matrix}

with obvious differentials (coordinate by coordinate differentatials as in normal singular complex).

There are two filtrations, he uses the first one (by rows) to determine the homology of the total complex, ane the second one to get $E^2_{p,q}=H_p(B,\underline{H_q}(F)$. I have a problem with the second part. He fixes $p$ and an application $c$ in the bottom row and interprets the diagram as a map $\Delta[q]\rightarrow F_c$ where $F_c$ is the image of $\Delta[p]\times\Delta[q]$ in $E$ such that the diagram commutes, which basically means that $C_{p,q}=\bigoplus_c \mathbb{Z}[F_c]$ (as a module, that's true). Now he calculates the homology of the column and says that it's $\bigoplus_c H_*(F_c)$. Why we can apply the vertical differential here? Do we need to check some compatibility condition?

Next, we want to use that $E^1_{p,q}$ is a module of singular $p$-chains with coefficients in a local system $\underline{H_q}(F)$ and say that the horizontal differential is just the regular differential to get the desired output. But how do we know that this differential works in a nice way?

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