A primer on computational group homology and cohomology

zbMATH Open1161.20049arXiv0706.0549MaRDI QIDQ3614656FDOQ3614656

Authors: David Joyner 

Publication date: 9 March 2009

Abstract: These are expanded lecture notes of a series of expository talks surveying basic aspects of group cohomology and homology. They were written for someone who has had a first course in graduate algebra but no background in cohomology. You should know the definition of a (left) module over a (non-commutative) ring, what $zzz[G]$ is (where $G$ is a group written multiplicatively and $zzz$ denotes the integers), and some ring theory and group theory. However, an attempt has been made to (a) keep the presentation as simple as possible, (b) either provide an explicit reference of proof of everything. Several computer algebra packages are used to illustrate the computations, though for various reasons we have focused on the free, open source packages such as GAP and SAGE.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.0549

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• Homological algebra programming.
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zbMATH Keywords

finite groupsgroup homologycomputationgroup cohomologycomputer algebra packages

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to group theory (20-04)

Cited In (10)

• 't Hooft anomalies of discrete gauge theories and non-abelian group cohomology
• Simplicial cohomology of smooth orbifolds in GAP
• An invitation to computational homotopy
• A Mathematica notebook for computing the homology of iterated products of groups.
• Interoperating between computer algebra systems: computing homology of groups with Kenzo and GAP
• Computing Bredon homology of groups
• Homological algebra programming.
• Computing projective indecomposable modules and higher cohomology groups.
• Cohomology and group extensions in Magma
• Title not available (Why is that?)

Uses Software

• GAP
• SageMath
• HAP
• Crime
• HAPcryst

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