Multiplicativity and nonrealizable equivariant chain complexes

Abstract

Let $G$ be a finite $p$-group and $\mathbb{F}$ a field of characteristic $p$. We filter the cochain complex of a free $G$-space with coefficients in $\mathbb{F}$ by powers of the augmentation ideal of $\mathbb{F}G$. We show that the cup product induces a multiplicative structure on the arising spectral sequence and compute the $E_1$-page as a bigraded algebra. As an application, we prove that recent counterexamples of Iyengar and Walker to an algebraic version of Carlsson's conjecture can not be realized topologically.

36 pages, improvements thanks to referee's comments, final version, to appear in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra

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