Higher spectral sequences

Abstract

In this article we construct what we call a higher spectral sequence for any chain complex (or topological space) that is filtered in $n$ compatible ways. For this we extend the previous spectral system construction of the author, and we show that it admits considerably more differentials than what was previously known. As a result, this endows the successive Leray--Serre, Grothendieck, chromatic--Adams--Novikov, and Eilenberg--Moore spectral sequences of the author with the structure of a higher spectral sequence. Another application is a universal coefficient theorem analog for spectral sequences.