Cocycle class

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In mathematics, more specifically in cohomology theory, a q\,\!-cocycle \alpha \,\! in the cochain group S^{q}(X)\,\! is associated with a unique equivalence class [\alpha ]\in H^{q}(X)\,\! known as the cocycle class or coclass of \alpha .\,\!


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