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We describe the theory and implementation of some new and more flexible Magma functions for computing cohomology groups of finite groups, and their application to the computation of group extensions.
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Holt, D.F. (2006). Cohomology and group extensions in Magma. In: Bosma, W., Cannon, J. (eds) Discovering Mathematics with Magma. Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37634-7_10
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