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Homology, Homotopy and Applications
Volume 1 (1999)
Number 1
Computing second cohomology of finite groups with trivial coefficients
Pages: 163 – 168
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/HHA.1999.v1.n1.a7
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Abstract
The paper describes a simple procedure for computing the second cohomology $H^2(G,A)$ of a finitely presented finite group $G$ with coefficients in a finitely presented finite abelian group $A$. An accompanying text-file contains a Magma implementation of the procedure.
Keywords
second cohomology, group extensions, Magma software
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification
20J06
Published 1 January 1999