Application of good coverings to collapsing Alexandrov spaces

Abstract

Let $M$ be an Alexandrov space collapsing to an Alexandrov space $X$ of lower dimension. Suppose $X$ has no proper extremal subsets and let $F$ denote a regular fiber. We slightly improve the result of Perelman to construct an infinitely long exact sequence of homotopy groups and a spectral sequence of cohomology groups for the pair $(M,X,F)$. The proof is an application of the good coverings of Alexandrov spaces introduced by Mitsuishi-Yamaguchi. We also extend this result to each primitive extremal subset of $X$.