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Low degree cohomologies of congruence groups

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We prove the vanishing of certain low degree cohomologies of some induced representations. As an application, we determine certain low degree cohomologies of congruence groups.

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The first author was supported by Research Grants Council General Research Fund of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Grant No. 16303314). The second author was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11688101, 11525105, 11621061 and 11531008).

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Correspondence to Binyong Sun.

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Dedicated to Professor Lo Yang on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

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Li, JS., Sun, B. Low degree cohomologies of congruence groups. Sci. China Math. 62, 2287–2308 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-018-9476-8

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