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April 7, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Fiber Architecture for Group Extensions in Lean 4: Cocycles, Splitting, and the Cohomological Bridge

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NSNova Spivack

Key Points

  • The aim is to formalize cohomological concepts related to group extensions in Lean 4.
  • Developed a formalization using Lean 4's GroupExtension API.
  • Organized the formalization around a fiber architecture.
  • Analyzed layers including fibers, set-theoretic sections, and homomorphic splittings.
  • Identified that an extension splits if a section has a trivial cocycle.
  • Established that an embedding problem is solvable if the extension splits or the cocycle obstruction vanishes.
  • Demonstrated the critical relationships between cocycles, splittings, and embedding problems.

Abstract

We present a machine-checked formalization of the section 2-cocycle, splitting criterion, and embedding-problem equivalence for group extensions in Lean 4, built on Mathlib's GroupExtension API. The formalization is organized around a fiber architecture that decomposes extensions into layers: fibers over quotient elements (N-torsors), set-theoretic sections (always exist), and homomorphic splittings (may not exist). The central results are: (1) the splitting criterion---an extension splits if and only if some section has trivial cocycle; (2) the embedding-problem equivalence---an abstract embedding problem (the central lifting problem in inverse Galois theory) is solvable if and only if the associated extension splits, if and only if the cocycle obstruction vanishes; (3) the 2-coc

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Nova Spivack (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d49fa9b33cc4c35a228105https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19430494
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