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In Michel Lazard's "Commutative Formal Groups" Springer Lecture Notes, he defines an operator on a polynomial 3-cochain $f$ denoted $\Gamma_n(f)$, which defines as the $n^{th}$ homogeneous piece of ...

Is there a "cohomology" group that encodes obstructions to constructing a lift in a diagram of groups below? If $X\to Y$ is an extension and the bottom row is the identity map it's just $H^1(...