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Group cocycle

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A group cocycle is an element of the kernel of the coboundary map in the standard cochain complex computing group cohomology.
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One-cocycle

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Group cocycle
For a G-module M, a one-cocycle is a map f:G→M satisfying f(gh)=f(g)+g⋅f(h).

Two-cocycle

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Group cocycle
For a G-module M, a two-cocycle is a map c:G×G→M satisfying
g⋅c(h,k)−c(gh,k)+c(g,hk)−c(g,h)=0.
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