Available in electronic format
Available in print format
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
ISSN 1088-6826 (e) ISSN 0002-9939 (p)
     

Exponents and the cohomology of finite groups

Author(s): Jonathan Pakianathan
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), 1893-1897.
MSC (1991): Primary 20J06, 17B50; Secondary 17B56
Posted: November 1, 1999
Retrieve article in: PDF
This article is available free of charge

Abstract | References | Similar articles | Additional information

Abstract: We will provide an example of a $p$-group $G$ which has elements of order $p^3$ in some of its integral cohomology groups but which also has the property that $p^2$ annihilates $\bar{H}^i(G;\mathbb{Z})$ for all sufficiently high $i$. This provides a counterexample to a conjecture of A. Adem which states that if a finite group $K$ has an element of order $p^n$ in one of its integral cohomology groups, then it has such an element in infinitely many of its cohomology groups.


References:

[A]
A. Adem, Cohomological exponents of $\mathbb{Z}G$-lattices, J. Pure and Appl. Alg. 58 (1989). MR 90b:20046

[BrP]
W. Browder, J. Pakianathan, Cohomology of uniformly powerful $p$-groups, preprint.

[B]
K. S. Brown, Cohomology of Groups, Springer Verlag GTM 87, New York-Heidelberg-Berlin, 1994. MR 96a:20072

[C]
G. Carlsson, R. L. Cohen, H. R. Miller, D. C. Ravenel, Algebraic Topology, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1370, New York-Heidelberg-Berlin, 1989. MR 90a:55003

[Le]
I. J. Leary, A bound on the exponent of the cohomology of $BC$-bundles, Proceedings of the 1994 Barcelona Conference on Algebraic Topology: Progress in Mathematics, Vol. 136 (1996) pp. 255-260, Birkhauser-Verlag. MR 97k:55018


Similar Articles:

Retrieve articles in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society with MSC (1991): 20J06, 17B50, 17B56

Retrieve articles in all Journals with MSC (1991): 20J06, 17B50, 17B56


Additional Information:

Jonathan Pakianathan
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Email: pakianat@math.wisc.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-99-05214-4
PII: S 0002-9939(99)05214-4
Received by editor(s): March 16, 1998
Received by editor(s) in revised form: August 13, 1998
Posted: November 1, 1999
Communicated by: Ralph Cohen
Copyright of article: Copyright 2000, American Mathematical Society


  AMS Website Logo Small Comments: webmaster@ams.org
© Copyright 2009, American Mathematical Society
Privacy Statement
Search the AMSPowered by Google