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Invariant Hopf $2$-cocycles for affine algebraic groups

Quantum Algebra 2017-10-12 v3

Abstract

We generalize the theory of the second invariant cohomology group Hinv2(G)H^2_{\rm inv}(G) for finite groups GG, developed in [Da2,Da3,GK], to the case of affine algebraic groups GG, using the methods of [EG1,EG2,G]. In particular, we show that for connected affine algebraic groups GG over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 00, the map Θ\Theta from [GK] is bijective (unlike for some finite groups, as shown in [GK]). This allows us to compute Hinv2(G)H^2_{\rm inv}(G) in this case, and in particular show that this group is commutative (while for finite groups it can be noncommutative, as shown in [GK]).

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@article{arxiv.1707.08672,
  title  = {Invariant Hopf $2$-cocycles for affine algebraic groups},
  author = {Pavel Etingof and Shlomo Gelaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.08672},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

21 pages; added references

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