The symbol length for elementary type pro-p groups and Massey products

Abstract: For a prime number

p

and an integer

m g e q 2

, we prove that the symbol length of all elements of

m

-fold Massey products in

H^{2} (G, m a t h b b F_{p})

, for pro-

p

groups

G

of elementary type, is bounded by

(m^{2} / 4) + m

. Assuming the Elementary Type Conjecture, this applies to all finitely generated maximal pro-

p

Galois groups

G = G_{F} (p)

of fields

F

which contain a root of unity of order

p

. More generally, we provide such a uniform bound for the symbol length of all pullbacks

of a given cohomology element

, where

is a finite

p

-group,

n g e q 2

, and

is a pro-

p

group homomorphism.

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