Schur multiplier

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In mathematical group theory, the Schur multiplier or Schur multiplicator is the second homology group ${\displaystyle H_{2}(G,\mathbb {Z} )}$ of a group G. It was introduced by Issai Schur (1904) in his work on projective representations.