Vanishing lines in generalized Adams spectral sequences are generic (Q1296212)

Let \(E\) be a ring spectrum that satisfies the standard assumptions for the construction and convergence of the \(E\)-based Adams spectral sequence, i.e. the corresponding spectral sequence converges to \(\pi_*(X)\) for \(E\)-complete spectra \(X\). In the present article the authors show that in this spectral sequence the presence of a vanishing line of fixed slope (at some term of the spectral sequence, with some intercept) is a generic property of \(X\), i.e. this property is passed on to retracts, and if two spectra in a cofibration sequence have this property, so does the third. The proof of this result is rather formal and actually applies in any category which satisfies the axioms of a stable homotopy category in the sense of \textit{M. Hovey, J. H. Palmieri} and \textit{N. P. Strickland} [Axiomatic stable homotopy theory, Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 610 (1997; Zbl 0881.55001)].