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Coboundary operators, 1-cocycles and computing cohomology
My question is about the compatibility and consistency between two definitions of cohomology in two books.
I asked this question about 10 days ago on MathSE
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Is cohomology of groups all about $H^{i}: -2\leq i\leq 2$?
I am reading Class field theory - Bonn Lectures by Neukirch.
Given a $G$ module $A$ he defines Cohomology groups $H^i(G,A) : i\in \mathbb{Z}$ by considering some complete resolution of $G$ modules ...
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Intuition for Group Cohomology
I'm beginning to learn cohomology for cyclic groups in preparation for use in the proofs of global class field theory (using ideal-theoretic arguments). I've seen the proof of the long exact sequence ...