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We give an explicit characterization for group extensions that correspond to elements of the symmetric cohomology HS 2(G, A). We also give conditions for the map HS n(G, A) → H n(G, A) to be injective.
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Research partially supported by the CNCSIS project “Hopf algebras, cyclic homology and monoidal categories”, contract no. 560/2009.
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Staic, M.D. Symmetric cohomology of groups in low dimension. Arch. Math. 93, 205–211 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-009-0039-y
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