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Problem understanding the cup-products for the modified cohomology in David Harari's book "Galois Cohomology and Class Field Theory"
I'm recently reading the very beginning of David Harari's book Galois Cohomology and Class Field Theory, and I met a problem with the definition of cup-products for the modified cohomology.
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A three-line proof of global class field theory?
There is an idea (I think originally due to Tate) that class field theory is fundamentally a consequence of Pontrjagin duality and Hilbert Theorem 90. I'm curious whether this can phrased using modern ...
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The Teichmüller's algebraic interpretation of $H^3$ in group cohomology
In the book "Cohomology of Groups" of Kenneth S. Brown, it is told in the introduction that Teichmüller arrived to $H^3$ in an algebraic context, i.e. that Teichmüller worked with an ...
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Tips on cohomology for number theory
I am curious about what is a good approach to the machinery of cohomology, especially in number-theoretic settings, but also in algebraic-geometric settings.
Do people just remember all the rules and ...