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This short research announcement briefly describes the simplicial method underlying the GAP package SCO for computing the so-called orbifold cohomology of topological resp. smooth orbifolds. SCO can be used to compute the lower dimensional group cohomology of some infinite groups.
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Barakat, M., Görtzen, S. (2010). Simplicial Cohomology of Smooth Orbifolds in GAP . In: Fukuda, K., Hoeven, J.v.d., Joswig, M., Takayama, N. (eds) Mathematical Software – ICMS 2010. ICMS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6327. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15582-6_9
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