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Rational discrete first degree cohomology for totally disconnected locally compact groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2018

ILARIA CASTELLANO
ILARIA CASTELLANO*
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University of Southampton, Salisbury Rd, Southampton SO17 1BJ. e-mail: ilaria.castellano88@gmail.com
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Abstract

It is well known that the existence of more than two ends in the sense of J.R. Stallings for a finitely generated discrete group G can be detected on the cohomology group H1(G,R[G]), where R is either a finite field, the ring of integers or the field of rational numbers. It will be shown (cf. Theorem A*) that for a compactly generated totally disconnected locally compact group G the same information about the number of ends of G in the sense of H. Abels can be provided by dH1(G, Bi(G)), where Bi(G) is the rational discrete standard bimodule of G, and dH•(G, _) denotes rational discrete cohomology as introduced in [6].

As a consequence one has that the class of fundamental groups of a finite graph of profinite groups coincides with the class of compactly presented totally disconnected locally compact groups of rational discrete cohomological dimension at most 1 (cf. Theorem B).

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 168 , Issue 2 , March 2020 , pp. 361 - 377
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2018 

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Footnotes

† This work was supported by GNSAGA-INdAM, by Programma SIR 2014 - MIUR (Project GADYGR) Number RBSI14V2LI cup G22I15000160008 and by EPSRC Grant N007328/1 Soluble Groups and Cohomology.

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