In mathematics, the May spectral sequence is a spectral sequence, introduced by J. Peter May (1965, 1966). It is used for calculating the initial term of the Adams spectral sequence, which is in turn used for calculating the stable homotopy groups of spheres. The May spectral sequence is described in detail in (Ravenel 2003, pp. 67–74).

References

• May, J. Peter (1965), "The cohomology of restricted Lie algebras and of Hopf algebras", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 71: 372–377, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1965-11300-3, MR 0185595
• May, J. Peter (1966), "The cohomology of restricted Lie algebras and of Hopf algebras", Journal of Algebra, 3 (2): 123–146, doi:10.1016/0021-8693(66)90009-3, MR 0193126
• Ravenel, Douglas C. (2003), Complex cobordism and stable homotopy groups of spheres (2nd ed.), AMS Chelsea, ISBN 978-0-8218-2967-7, MR 0860042.