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Class Formation
In mathematics, a class formation is a topological group acting on a module satisfying certain conditions. Class formations were introduced by Emil Artin and John Tate to organize the various Galois groups and modules that appear in class field theory. Definitions A formation is a topological group ''G'' together with a topological ''G''-module ''A'' on which ''G'' acts continuously. A layer ''E''/''F'' of a formation is a pair of open subgroups ''E'', ''F'' of ''G'' such that ''F'' is a finite index subgroup of ''E''. It is called a normal layer if ''F'' is a normal subgroup of ''E'', and a cyclic layer if in addition the quotient group is cyclic. If ''E'' is a subgroup of ''G'', then ''A''''E'' is defined to be the elements of ''A'' fixed by ''E''. We write :''H''''n''(''E''/''F'') for the Tate cohomology group ''H''''n''(''E''/''F'', ''A''''F'') whenever ''E''/''F'' is a normal layer. (Some authors think of ''E'' and ''F'' as fixed fields rather than subgroup of ''G'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Module (mathematics)
In mathematics, a module is a generalization of the notion of vector space in which the field of scalars is replaced by a (not necessarily commutative) ring. The concept of a ''module'' also generalizes the notion of an abelian group, since the abelian groups are exactly the modules over the ring of integers. Like a vector space, a module is an additive abelian group, and scalar multiplication is distributive over the operations of addition between elements of the ring or module and is compatible with the ring multiplication. Modules are very closely related to the representation theory of groups. They are also one of the central notions of commutative algebra and homological algebra, and are used widely in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology. Introduction and definition Motivation In a vector space, the set of scalars is a field and acts on the vectors by scalar multiplication, subject to certain axioms such as the distributive law. In a module, the scal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |