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Universal cover of SL2(R) admits no central extensions?

Is it true that the universal cover of $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})$ has no non-trivial central extensions... as an abstract group? (that's certainly true as a Lie group) Motivation: I have a projective ...
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