<p dir="ltr">A group is said to be matricially (Frobenius) stable if every function from the group to unitary matrices that is "almost multiplicative" in the point operator (Frobenius) norm topology is "close" to a genuine unitary representation in the same topology. A result of Dadarlat shows that for a large class of groups, non-torsion even cohomology obstructs matricial stability. However, the proof doesn't generate explicit almost multiplicative maps that are far from genuine representations. In this paper, we compute explicit almost homomorphisms for all finitely generated groups with a non-torsion 2-cohomology class with a residually finite central extension. We use similar techniques to show that finitely generated nilpotent groups are Frobenius stable if and only if they are virtually cyclic, and that a finitely generated group with a non-torsion 2-cohomology class that can be written as a cup product of two 1-cohomology classes is not Frobenius stable.</p><p><br></p>

Two results are obtained in this work. First, we prove that for a commutative ring embedded in a larger ring, which is not necessarily commutative, its division and rational closures coincide. Second, for an infinite discrete group G, we investigate group cohomology and homology with coefficients in lp(G). We prove that if G is of type FPn, then all its homology and cohomology groups up to n are either zero or infinite dimensional. This generalizes one of the results obtained by Bekka and Valette / Ph. D.

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There has been in the past ten to fifteen years a surge of activity concerning the cohomology of semi-direct product groups of the form $\mathbb{Z}^{n}\rtimes$G with G finite. A problem first stated by Adem-Ge-Pan-Petrosyan asks for suitable conditions for the Lyndon-Hochschild-Serre Spectral Sequence associated to this group extension to collapse at second page of the Lyndon-Hochschild-Serre spectral sequence. In this thesis we use facts from integer representation theory to reduce this problem to only considering representatives from each genus of representations, and establish techniques for constructing new examples in which the spectral sequence collapses.

Les catégories de fusion pointées sont des catégories de fusion pour lesquelles les objets simples sont inversibles. Nous développons des méthodes basés par ordinateur pour classifier les catégories pointées à équivalence de Morita près, et les appliquons aux catégories pointées de dimensions comprises entre 2 et 32. Nous prouvons qu'il existe 1126 classes de Morita pour de telles catégories. Aussi, nous prouvons que les indicateurs de Frobenius-Schur du centre d'une catégorie pointée de dimension inférieure à 32, accompagnés de structure enrubannée de ce centre, déterminent sa classe de Morita. Ceci est faux en général: les données modulaires, et donc a fortiori les indicateurs et structures enrubannées, ne distinguent pas les catégories modulaires. Nous donnons une famille d'exemples ; en réalité, il existe un nombre arbitrairement grand de catégories modulaires deux-à-deux non équivalentes qui peuvent partager les mêmes données modulaires. / Pointed fusion categories are fusion categories in which all simple objects are invertible. We develop computer-based methods to classify pointed categories up to Morita equivalence, and apply them to pointed fusion categories of dimension from 2 to 31. We prove that there are 1126 Morita classes of such categories. Also, we prove that the Frobenius-Schur indicators of the centers of a pointed category of dimension less than 32, along with its ribbon twist, determine its Morita class. This is not true in general: the modular data, and a fortiori the indicators and the ribbon twists, do not distinguish modular categories. We give a family of examples; in fact, arbitrarly many pairwise non-equivalent modular categories can share the same modular data.

在本碩士論文中, 我們闡述了投射有限群表現, 以及其形變理論。 我們亦特別研究這些表示在 GL_1 和 GL_2 之形變, 並且給了可表示化 的判定準則。 最後, 我們解釋相對應的泛形變環之扎里斯基切空間與 群餘調之關連, 並計算了 GL_1 的泛形變表現。 / In this master thesis, we give an exposition of the deformation theory of representations for GL_1 and GL_2, respectively, of certain profinite groups. We give rigidity conditions of the fixed representation and verify several conditions for the representability. Finally, we interpret the Zariski tangent spaces of respective universal deformation rings as certain group cohomology and calculate the universal deformation for GL_1.