# Tate-Farrell cohomology of a circle

I know my question is very imprecise. I am trying to understand Tate-Farrell cohomology of the infinite Lie group $S^1$ (say, with coefficients in $\mathbb C$). I would expect that the answer is something like the space of Laurent polynomials $\mathbb C[t^{-1},t]$. Is there any geometric intuition for this? What would be the meaning of multiplication by $t$? What is the meaning of the completion $\mathbb C((t))$?

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Loran should probably be Laurent :) –  Mariano Suárez-Alvarez Nov 4 '10 at 20:55
Are you talking about S^1 as a discrete group, a topological group or a Lie group? Rather, what are you more interested in: S^1 or Tate-Farrell cohomology? –  David Roberts Nov 4 '10 at 22:42
Lie group. More interested in S^1 :-) –  Roman Fedorov Nov 5 '10 at 13:43

Comment: Farrell-Tate cohomology as defined in Brown's book "Cohomology of Groups" requires the group to be of finite virtual cohomological dimension (i.e. the group has a finite index subgroup which has a finite projective resolution). But $S^1$ doesn't have finite virtual cohomological dimension because it has finite subgroups of arbitrary order.
There is a generalization of Farrell-Tate cohomology for arbitrary groups due to Benson-Carlson/Mislin, that is usually called "complete cohomoloy" or "complete Tate cohomology". I don't know if that cohomology has been computed for $S^1$ (most computations are done for discrete groups).