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The factor set of a section is a normalized two-cocycle

Statement

If $s$ is a normalized section of an abelian-kernel extension, then its factor set $f_{s}$ is a normalized two-cocycle.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: An extension $1 \to M \to E \to G \to 1$ with abelian kernel, and a normalized section $s : G \to E$ .

[F1]

Normalized two-cocycles are characterized by the cocycle and normalization equations (Normalized two-cocycle and two-coboundary).

[F2]

The factor set of a normalized section is defined by $s (g) s (h) s (g h)^{- 1} = i (f_{s} (g, h))$ (Normalized set-theoretic section and factor set).

Proof

technique · direct

1.1F2givenalgebra

Because $s (1) = 1$ , [F2] gives $i (f_{s} (1, g)) = s (1) s (g) s (g)^{- 1} = 1$ and likewise $i (f_{s} (g, 1)) = 1$ . The kernel map $i$ is injective, so $f_{s} (1, g) = f_{s} (g, 1) = 0$ .

1.2F2algebra

Compute $(s (g) s (h)) s (k)$ and $s (g) (s (h) s (k))$ using [F2]. The left-associated expansion is $i (f_{s} (g, h)) i (f_{s} (g h, k)) s (g h k),$ while the right-associated expansion is $s (g) i (f_{s} (h, k)) s (g)^{- 1} i (f_{s} (g, h k)) s (g h k) .$ Translating the conjugation term by the given $G$ -action yields $g \cdot f_{s} (h, k) - f_{s} (g h, k) + f_{s} (g, h k) - f_{s} (g, h) = 0.$

2.1F1step 1.1step 1.2∎

Steps 1.1 and 1.2 are exactly the conditions of [F1], so $f_{s} \in Z^{2} (G, M)$ .

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Used by

Changing the section changes the factor set by a coboundary Lemma

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Sources

Clara Loh, Group Cohomology, SS 2019 (standard reference, not scraped)
Caroline Lassueur, Cohomology of Groups, SS 2021 (standard reference, not scraped)