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Extensions of pro-p groups of cohomological dimension two

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Tilmann Würfel
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus, Lehman, PA 18627, U.S.A.

Extract

The purpose of this note is to extend Brumer's characterization of pro-p groups of cohomological dimension two ([1], corollary 5·3) to presentations more general than free ones. The result is then used to rid a proof in [7] of certain field theoretic ingredients. As a by-product we complete a result of Tsvetkov [6] about group extensions obtained by omitting relations.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1986

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