Galois cohomology

This paper primarily concerns Galois cohomology groups associated to Galois representations over a complete local ring R. The underlying Galois module and the corresponding cohomology groups which we consider are discrete R-modules. Under certain hypotheses, we prove that the first cohomology group is an almost divisible R- module. We also consider the subgroup of locally trivial elements in the second

This article is the first part of a two-part work on the Albanese kernel T_F(E x E), for an elliptic curve E over F. The main result furnishes information, for any odd prime p, about the kernel and image of the Galois symbol map from T_F(E \times E)/p to the Galois cohomology group H^2(F, E[p] (x) E[p]), for F a

Let F be a field containing a primitive pth root of unity, and let U be an open normal subgroup of index p of the absolute Galois group GF of F. We determine the structure of the cohomology group H n (U, Fp) as an Fp[GF/U]-module for all n ∈ N. Previously this structure was known only for n = 1, and until recently the structure even of H 1 (U, Fp) was determined only for F a local field, a case settled by Borevič and Faddeev in the 1960s.