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TauCeti.RepresentationTheory.Homological.TateCohomology.Cup.Character

The low-degree Tate pairing with a character class #

For a finite group G of order n, the cup product pairs its additive abelianization, identified with Ĥ⁻²(G, ℤ) (TauCeti.TateCohomology.HNegTwoAddEquivAbelianization), with the connecting class δχ ∈ Ĥ²(G, ℤ) of a character χ : Gᵃᵇ → ℚ/ℤ, landing in Ĥ⁰(G, ℤ) = ℤ/nℤ. This file computes the pairing: for σ ∈ Gᵃᵇ, the product σ ∪ δχ is the class of -k, for any integer k with k / n ≡ χ(σ) (mod 1) (TauCeti.TateCohomology.map_leftUnitor_cup_characterConnectingClass). In other words, the pairing Gᵃᵇ × Hom(Gᵃᵇ, ℚ/ℤ) → (1/n)ℤ/ℤ that it induces is (σ, χ) ↦ -χ(σ).

The computation has three steps.

This is the low-degree normalization through which a character detects the Artin map of a class formation. Its Nakayama isomorphism is induced by cup product with the fundamental class in degree -2, and Artin reciprocity is the inverse of that isomorphism.

Main results #

References #

The degree (-2, 1) cup product with a character is evaluation, up to sign. For σ ∈ Gᵃᵇ = Ĥ⁻²(G, ℤ) and a character χ : Gᵃᵇ → ℚ/ℤ, read as a class in Ĥ¹(G, ℚ/ℤ), the product σ ∪ χ is the class of the norm-zero element 1 ⊗ (-χ(σ)) in Ĥ⁻¹(G, ℤ ⊗ ℚ/ℤ).

The Tate pairing of Gᵃᵇ with a character class. For σ ∈ Gᵃᵇ = Ĥ⁻²(G, ℤ), a character χ : Gᵃᵇ → ℚ/ℤ and an integer k with k / |G| ≡ χ(σ) (mod 1), the cup product σ ∪ δχ, read in Ĥ⁰(G, ℤ) through the left unitor, is -k times the class of 1.

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Under the canonical embedding Ĥ⁰(G, ℤ) = ℤ/|G|ℤ → ℚ/ℤ, the Tate pairing of σ ∈ Gᵃᵇ with the connecting class of a character χ is the negative evaluation -χ(σ).