The second homology group of a group; relations among commutators
The second homology group of a group; relations among commutators
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10.1090/s0002-9939-1952-0049191-5
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1952
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C. Miller
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We are concerned with the problem of assigning a group theoretic interpretation to the second homology group H2(G, J) of a group G, with integer coefficients, J[l, p. 486]. We shall define a new group, H(G), called the associated group of G, which is, roughly speaking, the group of all relations satisfied by commutators in G, taken modulo those relations which are trivially, or universally, satisfied. (The reader is cautioned not to expect that the associated group of an abelian group necessarily vanishes; we do not regard the statement "x and y commute implies [x, y] = l" as a relation.) We then show that H(G)^H2(G, J), so that H2(G, J) gives a measure of the extent to which relations among commutators in G fail to be consequences of universal relations. For a given group G, let (G, G) be the free group on all pairs (x, y), with x, y EG. There is a natural homomorphism of {G, G) onto [G, G] which sends (x, y) into [x, y}. If wE(G, G), we denote its image in [G, G] by [w], and define Z(G) to be the kernel,