## Algebraic & Geometric Topology

### On third homologies of groups and of quandles via the Dijkgraaf–Witten invariant and Inoue–Kabaya map

Takefumi Nosaka

#### Abstract

We propose a simple method for producing quandle cocycles from group cocycles by a modification of the Inoue–Kabaya chain map. Further, we show that, with respect to “universal extension of quandles”, the chain map induces an isomorphism between third homologies (modulo some torsion). For example, all Mochizuki’s quandle $3$–cocycles are shown to be derived from group cocycles. As an application, we calculate some $ℤ$–equivariant parts of the Dijkgraaf–Witten invariants of some cyclic branched covering spaces, via some cocycle invariant of links.

#### Article information

Source
Algebr. Geom. Topol., Volume 14, Number 5 (2014), 2655-2692.

Dates
Revised: 8 October 2013
Accepted: 14 October 2013
First available in Project Euclid: 19 December 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.agt/1513715999

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2140/agt.2014.14.2655

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3276844

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
06369094

#### Citation

Nosaka, Takefumi. On third homologies of groups and of quandles via the Dijkgraaf–Witten invariant and Inoue–Kabaya map. Algebr. Geom. Topol. 14 (2014), no. 5, 2655--2692. doi:10.2140/agt.2014.14.2655. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.agt/1513715999

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