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Cohomological dimension

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Gruenberg, K.W. (1970). Cohomological dimension. In: Cohomological Topics in Group Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 143. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0059170

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