Heriot-Watt Mathematics Report Series
HWM99-2, 21 Jan 1999

Homology of products of subgroups

W A Bogley and N D Gilbert


Abstract

We exploit the decomposition of a group that is the product of two normal subgroups as a semidirect product, and use assumptions on the low-dimensional homology of the factors to deduce information on the low-dimensional homology of the product. We study Peiffer products, in which the normal subgroups satisfy a commutatoe condition. Our main result is that a Peiffer product of superperfect groups is superperfect.

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