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The exercise 9.9.5 of Weibel's homological algebra states that

$\textbf{Exercises 9.9.5}$ If $Z$ is a nilpotent ideal of $R$ and $k$ is a field of $char(k) = 0$, show that $H_{dR}^{\ast}(R) \cong H_{dR}^{\ast}(R/I)$.

where $R$ is commutative positively graded $k$-algebra. Here, I don't understand what is $Z$? He used the $Z(R)$ to denote the cyclic module associated to ring $R$, but which is nilpotent does not make sense. So what I am understanding is that this $Z$ should be $I$ in above exercise. But in that case exercise becomes:

$\textbf{Exercises}$ If $I$ is a nilpotent ideal of $R$ and $k$ is a field of $char(k) = 0$, show that $H_{dR}^{\ast}(R) \cong H_{dR}^{\ast}(R/I)$.

which looks very suspicious. Even though this is true when we replace $H^{\ast}_{dR}$ by periodic cycle homology $HC^{per}_{\ast}$ but for de Rham cohomology it seems very odd. Can someone clear this confusion whether this is typo error (Z instead of I) or the original exercise really mean something else.

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    $\begingroup$ There is a correction to the exercise listed here: sites.math.rutgers.edu/~weibel/Hbook.errors.edition2.pdf $\endgroup$
    – Zhen Lin
    Commented Aug 18, 2020 at 2:52
  • $\begingroup$ Are you looking at the hardback version? My paperback copy of Weibel's Intro to HA says: if $I$ is a nilpotent ideal of $R$ and $k$ has characteristic zero, show that $H^*_{dR}(R)=H^*_{dr}(R/I)$ $\endgroup$
    – Yemon Choi
    Commented Aug 18, 2020 at 2:52
  • $\begingroup$ @ZhenLin Oops, I didn't notice that! Guess this shows that I didn't study this book as diligently as I should have during my PhD studies ... $\endgroup$
    – Yemon Choi
    Commented Aug 18, 2020 at 2:53
  • $\begingroup$ Nor did I, but I remembered seeing comprehensive errata for this book. Lesson: check errata first! $\endgroup$
    – Zhen Lin
    Commented Aug 18, 2020 at 2:59
  • $\begingroup$ @zhen this correction says that this exercise is wrong and replace by some different exercise. $\endgroup$
    – Sunny
    Commented Aug 18, 2020 at 3:36

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