Homologies of inverse limits of groups

Publication date 20 December 2018

Abstract: Let

H_{n}

be the

n

-th group homology functor (with integer coeffcients) and let

{G_{i}}_{i i n m a t h b b N}

be any tower of groups such that all maps

G_{i + 1} o G_{i}

are surjective. In this work we study kernel and cokernel of the following natural map:

H_n(varprojlim G_i) o varprojlim H_n(G_i)

For

n = 1

Barnea and Shelah [BS] proved that this map is surjective and its kernel is a cotorsion group for any such tower

{G_{i}}_{i i n m a t h b b N}

. We show that for

n = 2

the kernel can be non-cotorsion group even in the case when all

G_{i}

are abelian and after it we study these kernels and cokernels for towers of abelian groups in more detail.

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