# a map between group cohomology groups

Consider a short exact sequence of (finite, or pro-finite) groups $$1 \to H \to G \xrightarrow{\pi} G/H \to 1$$ and suppose for simplicity that $H$ lies in the centre of $G$. Such short exact sequence corresponds to a 2-cocycle in $H^2(G/H,H)$ under the correspodence between central extensions and second group cohomology. The cocycle is calculated as follows: take a section $j$ of $\pi$ and let $$h_{\sigma,\tau}=j(\sigma)+\sigma j(\tau) - j(\sigma\tau)$$

My question is about a map $$f: H^1(G,A^H) \to H^2(G/H,A^H)$$ which is defined by a somewhat similar formula.

Take $\{g_\sigma\} \in H^1(G,A^H)$, take a section $j$ as above, and define the 2-cocycle as follows $$h_{\sigma,\tau}=g_{j(\sigma)}+j(\sigma)g_{j(\tau)}-g_{j(\sigma\tau)}$$ One can check that the class of $h$ does not depend neither on a particular choice of a cocycle $g$ in a cohomology class, nor on the section $j$, the map is also functorial in $A$.

What is known about this map? Is it a part of some standard exact equence, or a composition of some well-known functors (like restriction/corestriction) ?

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 This is more of a guess but have you looked into papers on equivariant group cohomology? – Simon Markett May 24 '12 at 12:24

Consider the 1-cochain $\phi_g$ for the bar resolution of $G/H$ with values in $A^H$ given on the free generators $[x]: x \in G/H$ by $[x]\mapsto g(j(x))$. Then $$\partial \phi_g [x|y] = \phi_g([x]+x[y]-[xy])=g(j(x)) + xg(j(y)) - g(j(xy))$$ (note the action of $x \in G/H$ is well-defined on $A^H$) which is your (second) map $h$. Thus $h$ is zero in cohomology.