In mathematics, the Bockstein spectral sequence is a spectral sequence relating the homology with mod p coefficients and the homology reduced mod p. It is named after Meyer Bockstein.
Let C be a chain complex of torsion-free abelian groups and p a prime number. Then we have the exact sequence:
Taking integral homology H, we get the exact couple of "doubly graded" abelian groups:
where the grading goes: and the same for