Varieties for cohomology with twisted coefficients

Authors
Citation
F. Carlson, Jon, Varieties for cohomology with twisted coefficients, Acta mathematica Sinica. English series (Print) , 15(1), 1999, pp. 81-92
ISSN journal
14398516
Volume
15
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
81 - 92
Database
ACNP
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Abstract
Let G be a finite group and k a field of characteristic p > 0. In this paper we consider the support variety for the cohomology module Ext *kG (M, N) where M and N are kG-modules. It is the subvariety of the maximal ideal spectrum of H*(G, k) of the annihilator of the cohomology module. For modules in the principal block we show that that the variety is contained in the intersections of the varieties of M and N and the difference between the that intersection and the support variety of the cohomology module is contained in the group theoretic nucleus. For other blocks a new nucleus is defined and a similar theorem is proven. However in the case of modules in a nonprincipal block several new difficulties are highlighted by some examples.