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Non-abelian exterior products of groups and exact sequences in the homology of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

G. J. Ellis
G. J. Ellis
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Department of Pure Mathematics, University College of North Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, U.K.
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Various authors have obtained an eight term exact sequence in homology

from a short exact sequence of groups

,

the term V varying from author to author (see [7] and [2]; see also [5] for the simpler case where N is central in G, and [6] for the case where N is central and N ⊂ [G, G]). The most satisfying version of the sequence is obtained by Brown and Loday [2] (full details of [2] are in [3]) as a corollary to their van Kampen type theorem for squares of spaces: they give the term V as the kernel of a map G ∧ N → N from a “non-abelian exterior product” of G and N to the group N (the definition of G ∧ N, first published in [2], is recalled below). The two short exact sequences

and

where F is free, together with the fact that H2(F) = 0 and H3(F) = 0, imply isomorphisms

.

.

The isomorphism (2) is essentially the description of H2(G) proved algebraically in [11]. As noted in [2], the isomorphism (3) is the analogue for H3(G) of the Hopf formula for H2(G).

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Research Article
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Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 1987 , pp. 13 - 19
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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1987

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