Inflation in continuous nonabelian first cohomology #
Let N be a normal subgroup of a topological group G acting on a topological group A. The
quotient G ⧸ N, with the quotient topology, acts on the fixed points Aᴺ, and inflation
H¹(G ⧸ N, Aᴺ) → H¹(G, A)
is the map induced by the compatible pair formed by the projection G → G ⧸ N and the inclusion
Aᴺ ↪ A. This file proves the nonabelian inflation–restriction sequence
1 → H¹(G ⧸ N, Aᴺ) → H¹(G, A) → H¹(N, A),
an exact sequence of pointed sets: inflation is injective, and a class restricts to the base
point of H¹(N, A) exactly when it is inflated.
For G compact and A discrete this gives the reduction of H¹(G, A) to finite quotients:
every class is inflated from G ⧸ U for an open normal subgroup U, and G ⧸ U is finite.
Together with the injectivity of inflation, H¹(G, A) is the union of the injective images of
the sets H¹(G ⧸ U, Aᵁ). For a profinite Galois group this is the reduction of continuous Galois
cohomology to the cohomology of finite Galois extensions.
The key construction is TauCeti.NonabelianH1.Cocycle.descend: a cocycle trivial on N is
constant on the cosets of N, takes values in Aᴺ, and so descends to a cocycle of G ⧸ N.
Main definitions #
TauCeti.NonabelianH1.infl: inflationH¹(G ⧸ N, Aᴺ) → H¹(G, A).TauCeti.NonabelianH1.Cocycle.descend: the cocycle ofG ⧸ Nwith values inAᴺinduced by a cocycle trivial onN.
Main results #
TauCeti.NonabelianH1.infl_injective: inflation is injective.TauCeti.NonabelianH1.res_eq_one_iff: a class restricts to the base point exactly when it is inflated.TauCeti.NonabelianH1.exists_mem_range_infl: forGcompact andAdiscrete, every class is inflated from the quotient by an open normal subgroup.
References #
- J.-P. Serre, Galois Cohomology, Springer, 1997, I.2.2 and I.5.8.
The projection G → G ⧸ N and the inclusion Aᴺ ↪ A form a compatible pair.
Inflation H¹(G ⧸ N, Aᴺ) → H¹(G, A): the map induced by the projection G → G ⧸ N and the
inclusion of the fixed points Aᴺ ↪ A.
Instances For
Inflation composes a representing cocycle with the projection G → G ⧸ N.
Inflation preserves the base point.
A cocycle trivial on N is constant on the cosets g * N.
A cocycle trivial on N takes values fixed by N.
The cocycle of G ⧸ N with values in Aᴺ induced by a cocycle f of G trivial on N:
f is constant on the cosets of N and takes values in Aᴺ.
Instances For
Inflating the descended cocycle recovers the original cocycle.
The class of a cocycle trivial on N is the inflation of the class of its descent.
Inflation is injective: for every normal subgroup N of G, the map
H¹(G ⧸ N, Aᴺ) → H¹(G, A) is injective. No continuity of the multiplication of A or of the
action of G on A is needed.
The restriction to N of an inflated class is the base point.
Inflation–restriction: a class restricts to the base point of H¹(N, A) exactly when it is
inflated from H¹(G ⧸ N, Aᴺ).
Reduction to finite quotients: for G compact and A discrete, every class of
H¹(G, A) is inflated from G ⧸ U for an open normal subgroup U. Such a quotient is finite
(Subgroup.quotient_finite_of_isOpen).