The combinatorics of the bar resolution in group cohomology

Victor Reiner, Peter Webb

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Abstract

We study a combinatorially defined double complex structure on the ordered chains of any simplicial complex. Its columns are related to the cell complex Kn whose face poset is isomorphic to the subword ordering on words without repetition from an alphabet of size n. This complex is shellable and as an application we give a representation theoretic interpretation for derangement numbers and a related symmetric function considered by Désarménien and Wachs [11].We analyze the two spectral sequences arising from the double complex in the case of the bar resolution for a group. This spectral sequence converges to the cohomology of the group and provides a method for computing group cohomology in terms of the cohomology of subgroups. Its behavior is influenced by the complex of oriented chains of the simplicial complex of finite subsets of the group, and we examine the Ext class of this complex.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)291-327
Number of pages37
JournalJournal of Pure and Applied Algebra
Volume190
Issue number1-3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2004

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