Cohomology Rings of Finite Groups: With an Appendix: Calculations of Cohomology Rings of Groups of Order Dividing 64

ISBN-13: 9789048163854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 776 str.

Jon F. Carlson; L. Townsley; Luis Valero-Elizondo

Opis

Group cohomology has a rich history that goes back a century or more. Its origins are rooted in investigations of group theory and num- ber theory, and it grew into an integral component of algebraic topology. In the last thirty years, group cohomology has developed a powerful con- nection with finite group representations. Unlike the early applications which were primarily concerned with cohomology in low degrees, the in- teractions with representation theory involve cohomology rings and the geometry of spectra over these rings. It is this connection to represen- tation theory that we take as our primary motivation for this book. The book consists of two separate pieces. Chronologically, the first part was the computer calculations of the mod-2 cohomology rings of the groups whose orders divide 64. The ideas and the programs for the calculations were developed over the last 10 years. Several new features were added over the course of that time. We had originally planned to include only a brief introduction to the calculations. However, we were persuaded to produce a more substantial text that would include in greater detail the concepts that are the subject of the calculations and are the source of some of the motivating conjectures for the com- putations. We have gathered together many of the results and ideas that are the focus of the calculations from throughout the mathematical literature.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"The cohomology of groups was developed to be ... a powerful tool in the study of group representations. ... Some other books concerning the cohomology of finite groups have appeared, but they are at least ten years old, and the computational tools that have been developed since then, make this book to be really valuable for both professionals and students. ... This book is almost self-contained and it is very useful ... for all of those that are using the cohomology instruments in their work." (Viorel Mihai Gontineac, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1056 (7), 2005)

Spis treści

Preface. Acknowledgements. 1: Homological Algebra. 1. Introduction. 2. Complexes and Sequences. 3. Projective and Injective Models. 4. Resolutions. 5. Ext. 6. Tensor Products and Tor. 2: Group Algebras. 1. Introduction. 2. Duality and Tensor Products. 3. Induction and Restriction. 4. Radicals, Socles and Projective Modules. 5. Degree Shifting. 6. The Stable Category. 7. Group Cohomology and Change of Coefficients. 3: Projective Resolutions. 1. Introduction. 2. Minimal Resolutions. 3. The Bar Resolution. 4. Applications to Low Dimensional Cohomology. 5. Restrictions, Inflations and Transfers. 4: Cohomology Products. 1. Introduction. 2. Yoneda Splices and Compositions of Chain Maps. 3. Products and Group Algebras. 4. Restriction, Inflation and Transfer. 5. Cohomology Ring Computations. 6. Shifted Subgroups and Restrictions. 7. Automorphisms and Cohomology. 5: Spectral Sequences. 1. Introduction. 2. The Spectral Sequence of a Biocomplex. 3. Products. 4. The Lyndon-Hochschild-Serre Spectral Sequence. 5. Extension Classes. 6. Minimal Resolutions and Convergence. 7. Exact Couples and the Bockstein Spectral Sequence. 6: Norms and the Cohomology of Wreath Products. 1. Introduction. 2. Wreath Products. 3. The Norm Map. 4. Examples and Applications. 5. Finite Generation of Cohomology. 7: Steenrod Operations. 1. Introduction. 2. The Steenrod Algebra and Modules. 3. The Steenrod Operations on Cohomology. 4. Cohomology and Modules Over the Steenrod Algebra. 5. The Cohomology of Extraspecial 2-Groups. 6. The Cohomology of Extraspecial p-Groups. 7. Serre's Theorem on the Vanishing of Bocksteins. 8: Varieties and Elementary Abelian Subgroups. 1. Introduction. 2. Filtrations on Modules. 3. Vanishing Products of Cohomology Elements. 4. Minimal Primes in Cohomology Rings. 5. The Stratification Theorem. 9: Cohomology Rings of Modules. 1. Introduction. 2. Generalized Bocksteins Over Elementary Abelian Groups. 3. Rank Varieties and Cohomology Rings Over Elementary Abelian Groups. 4. The Cohomological Support Variety of a Module. 5. Equating the Rank and Cohomological Support Varieties. 6. The Tensor Product Theorem. 7. Properties of the Cohomological Support Varieties. 10: Complexity and Multiple Complexes. 1. Introduction. 2. Notes on Dimension and Rates of Growth. 3. Complexity of Modules. 4. Varieties for Modules with Other Coefficient Rings. 5. Projective Resolutions as Multiple Complexes. 11: Duality Complexes. 1. Introduction. 2. Gaps in Cohomology. 3. Poincaré Duality Complexes. 4. Differentials in the HSS. 5. Cohen Macaulay Cohomology Rings. 6. Further Considerations. 12: Transfers, Depth and Detection. 1. Introduction. 2. Notes